Traffic stop leads to arrest for drug and weapon offences.
Prior to 7 p.m. on July 8, 2017, Eskasoni RCMP Detachment conducted a traffic stop on Highway 216 which resulted in the arrest of a 29-year-old man from Eskasoni. Brenan Joseph Googoo was arrested after RCMP seized 55 Oxycodone pills, 11 Hydromorphone pills, cash, a machete and two hunting knives.
Googoo was remanded in to custody where he is scheduled to appear in Sydney Provincial Court today to answer to the charges of two counts of Possession for the Purpose of Trafficking, and three counts of Possession of a Weapon.
The investigation is ongoing.