Further Charges Possible In Fallout From Violent Home Invasion
The questions MJ Independent asked were about $400,000 in fentanyl seized in the course of an attempted murder investigation and if charges were coming.
By Robert Thomas
Further charges are still possible in the wake of a September 13th violent home invasion that left a man shot to the head with serious but non-life threatening injuries.
That’s the word from Moose Jaw Police Service (MJPS) chief Rick Bourassa. Chief Bourassa made his comments during the post Moose Jaw Board of Police Commissioners media scrum when asked by MJ Independent about the incident.
“The charges will come when the investigation is complete and we have to see that successfully through court,” he said.
MJPS Chief Rick Bourassa at the September 28th board meeting of the Moose Jaw Board of Police Commissioners
In the September 13th incident 28-year-old Joshua Bradley Adams and 29-year-old Ryan Gill Perreault have been charged with attempted murder - and other criminal offences- as a result of a violent home invasion.
Police were called to a 1200 block Irving residence in relation to a suspicious occurrence where they found a 28-year-old male with gunshot injuries.
As part of the investigation the MJPS found fentanyl with a value of approximately $400,000 and $6,700 in Canadian currency.
The victim in the incident has never been publicly identified.
Items seized by the Moose Jaw Police Service in relation to the September 13, 2023 incident - MJPS photo
Bourassa said he could not speak about how far the investigation had progressed because he had not spoken to the investigating officers recently, but that “it is active.”
Asked by MJ Independent if the $400,000 was “a lot of fentanyl” or was it what has been seen regularly by the MJPS Chief Bourassa took a moment to respond and then said “that’s a lot (of fentanyl).”
“It’s a lot. We understand there is quite a bit. We don’t encounter a lot of it, but we do know with the coroner’s office, and some of our the other agencies we deal with they are seeing the results of it quite a bit.”
“We don’t encounter it (fentanyl) to the extent that we know it’s in the community”
Asked further by MJ Independent if the fentanyl was found due to an active MJPS investigation or due to investigating the shooting Chief Bourassa said he couldn’t say.
The officer who would know was not in attendance at the Moose Jaw Board of Police Commissioners meeting, Chief Bourassa said.