A man has been arrested and a suspect remains at large after a driver fleeing police hit several vehicles, including a school bus, earlier this month.
During an investigation into a drug-trafficking ring, Winnipeg Police Service investigators saw two suspects in a 2004 Jeep Compass using a storage locker in the 1200 block of Notre Dame Avenue and tried to pull them over on Dec. 11.
The driver fled, hitting several vehicles near Sargent Avenue and Edmonton Street, including a school bus. No one was injured. Officers found the vehicle abandoned in a parking lot on the 800 block of St. James Street that same day with about 13.3 grams of fentanyl inside.
SUPPLIED Kevan Anderson, 41
Police issued arrest warrants for 47-year-old Cory Kozmenski and 41-year-old Kevan Anderson.
On Thursday, Kozmenski was arrested and charged with 21 drug trafficking, firearm and breach of court offences. When he was arrested, he was in possession of 13 ecstasy pills, more than $10,000 in Canadian currency and US$400, resulting in additional charges of drug trafficking, owning the proceeds of property obtained from crime and failing to comply with conditions of an undertaking.
Police are still searching for Anderson, who police described as armed and dangerous. He is wanted on 13 offences related to the Dec. 11 incident and the drug-trafficking investigation. Anyone with information on Anderson’s whereabouts is asked not to approach him and to call 911 immediately.
As a result of the WPS investigation, four people additional people — a 42-year-old man, a 26-year-old man, a 46-year-old woman and a 32-year-old woman — were charged with multiple weapons, drugs, possession of property obtained by crime and trafficking offences. They were all released on undertakings to appear in court.
malak.abas@freepress.mb.ca
SUPPLIED Cory Kozmenski, 47
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