Stolen gun trial slated for June
A woman facing 98 charges in connection with a pair of RCMP weapons and stolen property busts will go to trial in June.
Kelsey Torpe and Andrew Scott Charpentier were charged after RCMP searched a Red Deer storage locker and a home in November 2017.
Officers seized 25 rifles, three shotguns, four crossbows, two pellet guns, tools, bicycles, dirt bikes, chainsaws, a generator, and electronics equipment.
RCMP investigators went to a Highland Green home on 58th Avenue and a search turned up numerous stolen items. A shotgun was found under a couch in the living room. Police also recovered a magazine from another weapon, a replica firearm, large amounts of ammunition, a laptop, Xbox game console, identity documents, and methamphetamine.
Most of the items had been reported missing after a series of recent break and enters.
Torpe and Charpentier each face 29 counts of unauthorized possession of a firearm, 28 counts of possession of a stolen firearm, 28 counts of careless use of a firearm or ammunition, seven counts of possession of stolen property as well as charges of unauthorized possession of a weapon, possession of a firearm with an altered serial number, illegal possession or trafficking in government documents and possession of crystal methamphetamine.
Charpentier is also facing an additional two counts of failing to comply with an undertaking to bring his charge total to 100.
Torpe is scheduled to go to trial in Red Deer provincial court June 15-18.
Charpentier is due to appear in Red Deer court Wednesday.