St James police ended two days of raids in Salt Spring and Irwin Heights with one man shot dead, four men arrested, four guns, about 150 rounds of ammunition and 192 parcels of marijuana seized.[1] Police named the dead man as 19-year-old Roger Haughton of Irwin Heights, killed in an exchange of gunfire, with a Raikel .380 pistol whose serial number had been erased and a loaded magazine allegedly taken from the scene.[1]
The raids began on a Saturday afternoon when armed police with a search warrant searched a building in the Go Peace area of Salt Spring.[1] That search yielded a Glock 26 pistol, an AK47 assault rifle, 57 7.62mm cartridges, 80 9mm cartridges, nine Smith and Wesson cartridges, a bullet-proof vest, a suit of army fatigues, 27 packets of compressed ganja, three buckets holding 15 gallons of hash oil and two motor vehicles.[1]
After the shooting, police searched another Irwin Heights house, seizing a home-made shotgun with two 12-gauge cartridges and arresting three occupants, Livingston Ricketts, 26, Claude Lloyd, 25, and Donavon Hamilton, 25, who were charged with illegal possession of a firearm.[1] A further house in Irwin Heights occupied by Byron O’Conner was searched and 165 parcels of ganja were allegedly found in a room; O’Conner was arrested and charged with possession of and dealing in ganja.[1] The divisional commander, Superintendent Newton Amos, said he was pleased with the operations and their results.[1]
