Kitscoty RCMP have laid firearm charges against a suspect after their investigation into what they termed a disturbance on Jan. 15.
Investigators say at about 1:40 a.m., they were called to Range Road 12, just outside of Lloydminster.
Police indicate that their initial investigation found a male suspect had used a weapon to hold two females against their will. A search warrant was obtained for the home and several items were seized, including rifles, handguns, prohibited weapons and devices, ammunition, and drugs.
Officers charged Dustin Lee Fialkowski, 36-years of Lloydminster with:
- Forcible confinement
- Pointing a firearm
- Using a firearm in the commission of an offence
- Uttering threats
- Assault with a weapon
- Two counts of possession of a prohibited weapon
- Two counts of possession of a prohibited device
- 11 counts of unsafe storage of firearms
- Possession of body armor while unauthorized
Fialkowski was brought before a justice of the peace and released on conditions. He is to return to the Alberta Court of Justice in Lloydminster on Feb. 6.
