Marc-Andre PILON Arrested After Drone Drop

Source: OPP
Date: Fri Sep 13 03:36:27 MST 2024

(LOYALIST TWP., ON) � The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) East Region Community Street Crime Unit has made an arrest after an attempt to deliver contraband to a Kingston-area correctional facility.



Street Crime Unit members, as well as members of the Lennox and Addington County OPP Detachment, located a suspicious vehicle near Millhaven Institution in Loyalist Township just before 9:00 p.m. on Wednesday, September 11, 2024.

Officials with the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) had located and seized a package dropped from a drone within the institution grounds, containing lighters, matches, a knife, razor blades, suspected cocaine, methamphetamine, tobacco and cannabis in various forms.

OPP members located a suspicious vehicle in the area and arrested one person. A search of the vehicle located suspected methamphetamine, cocaine, and various forms of cannabis, as well as numerous SIM cards and digital scales.

As a result of the investigation, Marc-Andre PILON, age 32 of Thurso, Quebec has been charged under the Criminal Code, Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, Corrections and Conditional Release Act and Cannabis Act with:

Conspiracy to commit an indictable offence
Mischief endangering life
Possession of a Schedule 1 substance for the purpose of trafficking � two counts
Delivers contraband to an inmate
Possessing cannabis for the purpose of selling
The accused was held in custody and is scheduled to appear for a bail hearing at the Ontario Court of Justice in Napanee on September 12, 2024.

The investigation is continuing.

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