Three children - aged three to twelve - were in the Richmond Hill apartment when police entered
“It’s bad enough when we find illegal guns and drugs in cars or on the streets,” Chief Jim MacSween said in a tweet Wednesday.
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“It’s especially disturbing when they’re found in a child’s bedroom.”
A 33-year-old Richmond Hill man — whose identity wasn’t released to protect three children, aged three, eight and 12, in the home — has been charged with four weapons-related offences plus three more of uttering threats, trafficking and possession of cocaine.
York cops say members of the Guns, Gangs and Drug Enforcement Unit began investigating a suspected drug trafficker in May and officers executed a search warrant at a Richmond Hill apartment on May 25.
The three children were in the home at the time of the seizures and the Children’s Aid Society has been notified.
“It is deplorable that a loaded firearm and cocaine were easily accessible to three young children in their own home and shocking the gun was found next to a crib in a three-year-old’s bedroom,” MacSween said in a statement.
“Thanks to the hard work of members of our Guns, Gangs and Drug Enforcement Unit these life-threatening dangers have been removed from the children’s home.”
