News Release Archives > May 2019

Posted: May 22, 2019

Straw Buyer Allegedly Sold Guns to Criminal Market

Edmonton… ALERT has charged an alleged firearms straw purchaser with selling firearms to the criminal market. An investigation by ALERT Edmonton’s Guns and Gangs unit has resulted in a variety of firearms charges against Aaron Hanlen-Knight. The 23-year-old Athabasca man was arrested on May 9, 2019. ALERT alleges that Hanlen-Knight purchased five handguns between November… Read more »

Posted: May 21, 2019

ALERT Makes Gun and Drug Bust in Grande Prairie

Grande Prairie… A suspected transaction between a firearms trafficker and a drug dealer was intercepted by ALERT teams in Grande Prairie. On May 13, 2019, three suspects were arrested in the parking lot of a Grande Prairie shopping centre, where an alleged exchange of firearms was taking place. Investigators with ALERT’s Grande Prairie organized crime… Read more »

Posted: May 03, 2019

Outlaw Bikers Arrested in Red Deer Drug Investigation

Red Deer… Members of a Red Deer outlaw motorcycle club have been charged with drug trafficking offences following a lengthy ALERT investigation. Project Rocker was a two-year investigation by ALERT Red Deer’s organized crime team into the suspected drug trafficking activities of the Syndicate outlaw motorcycle club. Syndicate is a support club of the Hells… Read more »