Two men were arrested in a drug bust when cops raided tents in a downtown homeless encampment Friday evening.
Toronto Police say officers executed a search warrant on “a number of tents” in Clarence Square Park at Spadina Ave. and Front St. W. just before 8:30 p.m.
“Two people were located and arrested,” Const. Laura Brabant said in a statement released Saturday.
She said “a quantity of drugs” – including cocaine, meth and fentanyl – and “a metal replica firearm” were located inside of one of the tents police searched.
Pablo Jose Bermudez Garcia, 57, of Toronto, is charged with four counts of drug possession for the purpose of trafficking, two counts of possession of proceeds obtained by crime under $5,000, and one count each of possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose and possession of a prohibited weapon.
Garcia was previously accused of a violent 2014 armed robbery of a convenience store where the female clerk was badly beaten after attempts to subdue to her with a noxious substance failed.
It’s unclear what happened with those charges.
The second accused, Gregoriou Fera, 33, of Toronto, is charged with one count of assault and two counts of possession of drugs for purpose of trafficking.
Clarence Square Park, which has doubled as a drug injection and ingestion site, had a large shipping container installed just last week that will serve as an Information and Help Centre according to the city.
Anyone with information regarding this investigation is asked to call police at 416-808-5200 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).
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