The Sûreté du Québec, through the integrated team of fighting fire arms traffic (EILTA), has arrested two residents of the Outaouais and an American for arms trafficking and import of firearms for restricted use at the end of a survey of several months.
According to our information, Estella Tomas, 44, was greeted by the Intervention Group of the Sûreté du Québec, late evening in the evening, very close to the border post of Franklin in Montérégie.
The American, originally from Mooers Folks, in new York State, had just borrowed from walking a wooded to enter Canada illegally from the United States.
When she pretended to be the handcuffs, she had eight handguns, two assault weapons, two hunting weapons and several high -capacity chargers, with a view to resale in the Canadian black market.
According to police sources which are not allowed to speak to the media, this operation represents a concrete example, a few hours before the meeting between Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and US President Donald Trump, that the problem of illegal border passages is not exclusive to the Canadian side.
A large number of illegal activities involving trafficking in arms, humans, narcotics and fentanyls come from the United States.
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Estella Tomas was arrested by the police in possession of several illegal weapons that she herself imported from the United States by crossing the border to the march.
Photo: Sûreté du Québec
The arrest of the alleged arms trafficking was communicated to the American authorities only after the facts.
Everything suggests that the agents wanted to arrest her on Canadian soil so that she would first face justice here, in the country.
Shortly after his arrest, Quebec Sûreté investigators apprehended two accomplices, Norman Jr Chabot and Jay Axel Stevens, aged 29 and 30 respectively. The two accused are residents of Maniwaki and Gatineau.
According to the indictment, the trio of alleged arms traffickers appeared at the courthouses of Gatineau and Mont-Laurier to face accusations in the Criminal Code of Traffic of Arms and Importing Weapons illegal for restricted use.
Any information related to possession, traffic, use and manufacture of firearms can be communicated to the Centaur Information Line, at 1 833 888-Arme (new window) (2763).
With the collaboration of Anne-Marie Lecomte and Karine Bastien
