Two Grimsby men are facing weapons and drug charges after members of the Niagara Regional Police Service responded to a firearms call in an apartment complex in Grimsby. On April 14, at about 2:30 p.m. uniformed police officers responded to a complaint of a gun being fired from the seventh floor of an apartment building on Slessor Boulevard in Grimsby. Upon entering the apartment police located and seized a pellet rifle that one of the apartment occupants was allegedly using to shoot at attendees of the apartment complex. During their investigation into the alleged shooting police also discovered a large quantity of marijuana, and six people in the apartment were arrested for drug possession. Detectives from the No. 8 District Criminal Investigations Unit attended the scene and their investigation led to the
search of another apartment on the sixth floor where more marijuana and drug paraphernalia was seized.
As a result of the police investigation two men were formally charged with criminal offences.
Charged with possession of a weapon dangerous to the public peace and possession of a controlled substance is Cory Cline, 23 of Grimsby.
Charged with two counts of possession of a controlled substance is Terry Disher, 19, also of Grimsby.
Both men have been released from police custody with court dates of June 12.
No people were injured by the shooting. The drugs seized had an estimated street value of approximately
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