Two guns seized and arrests made after gunshots heard in Ridgemont area
Posted Apr 25, 2019 07:34:00 PM.
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Two Ottawa men are facing weapon-related charges after reports of shots fired on Grasmere Crescent, just east of Bank Street and south of Heron Road.
Officers were called to the Ridgemont neighbourhood around 1:30 a.m., Thursday, after the reported gunshots.
During their investigation, officers began searching for a vehicle that had fled the scene. A broadcast was put out to all officers on the road and the suspected vehicle was spotted by in the Montreal Road area and stopped.
Two suspects were arrested and a search of the vehicle turned up two loaded handguns, one of which turned out to be a replica.
Michael Tountas, 28, of Ottawa, has been charged with:
- Possession of a weapon (2 counts)
- Occupy motor vehicle with firearm
- Possess loaded regulated firearm
- Possess restricted or prohibited firearm without holding a licence and registration certificate
- Possess restricted or prohibited firearm knowingly not holding a licence and registration certificate
Edward Joseph Theodore McGrath, 52, of Ottawa, has been charged with:
- Use firearm/commit indictable offence
- Use/handle/store firearm, etc. Carelessly
- Point a firearm
- Possess weapon, etc./dangerous to public peace
- Possess restricted or prohibited firearm without holding a licence and registration certificate
- Possess restricted or prohibited firearm knowingly not holding a licence and registration certificate
- Occupy motor vehicle with firearm, etc.
- Possess loaded regulated firearm
- Possess firearm, etc. While prohibited
- Common nuisance/endanger lives or safety of public
- Discharge firearm being reckless as to the life or safety of another person
- Uttering threats/death or bodily harm
- Assault
Tountas and McGrath were expected in court Thursday afternoon.
Ottawa police have seized 15 illegal guns in 2019.
