Pair faces dozens of drug charges after east Ontario traffic stop: OPP

Two people are facing dozens of charges after a routine traffic stop turned into a drug bust in a community southeast of the capital last Thursday.

OPP say they pulled a vehicle over for expired plates around 12:30 p.m. on Dickinson drive in South Stormont, Ont.

Police say during the traffic stop they found suspected cannabis, cannabis products, hash and magic mushrooms.

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Officers charged Gulliver Royster, 26, and Kabilan Anura, 28, with:

• Possession of over 30 grams dried cannabis in a public place,
• Possession of illicit cannabis,
• Possession for the purpose of distributing,
• Possess, produce, sell, distribute or import anything with intention to use it to produce, sell or distribute illicit cannabis
• Traffick in Schedule III substance
• Possession of proceeds of property obtained by crime under $5000

Anura is facing extra counts of the possession and trafficking charges. Royster was also charged with driving without a permit.

Both were released and are scheduled to appear at the Ontario Court of Justice in Cornwall at a later date.