NEWS RELEASE
YORK REGIONAL POLICE
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Investigators with the York Regional Police #3 District Criminal Investigations Bureau have laid charges and seized drugs and a gun following a trafficking investigation in the Town of Georgina.
On Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022, officers were on patrol in the area of Metro Road and Simcoe Avenue and observed a vehicle along with four people acting suspiciously in a parking lot. The officers began investigating and learned that the suspects were trafficking drugs.
The four suspects were arrested. When officers searched the suspects and vehicle, they located a loaded handgun, a loaded magazine with 15 rounds and 15 loose rounds of ammunition, 91 grams of cocaine, 143 grams of fentanyl, five grams of methamphetamine, 131 dilaudid tablets, 25 percocets, 40 hydromorphone tablets and $2,000.
Four suspects have been charged and investigators have laid 18 criminal charges that include possession for the purpose of trafficking drugs, possession of property obtained by crime under $5,000, possession of a firearm knowing its possession is unauthorized, possession of a restricted firearm with ammunition, along with other firearm-related offences.
Charged:
• Gregory Perdomo-Perezi, 28, Bolton
• Marissa Gurica, 34, Georgina
• Will Martin, 31, no fixed address
• 17-year-old youth from Toronto
Investigators would like to warn residents of the presence of purple, red and rainbow-coloured fentanyl being distributed in Georgina. Residents are reminded that if fentanyl is mistaken for another less-potent opioid like morphine, heroin or oxycodone, overdoses can easily occur. Depending on how it’s administered, the user may not notice the difference until it’s too late.
York Regional Police remains committed to combating the distribution of opioids in our community. For more information on how partners from across York Region are working together to reduce opioid harms, read the Opioid Action Plan. A video on the dangers of fentanyl is available for viewing here: https://www.york.ca/media/75406/download.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the York Regional Police #3 District Criminal Investigations Bureau at 1-866-876- 5423, ext. 7341, or call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS, leave an anonymous tip online.
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