GO 12-100620 - Weapons Charges

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At 11 p.m. East patrol members responded to the area of Bell Lake to a report of a group of youths drinking in the woods. An intoxicated male youth attempted to avoid responding officers and was detained in the area of Dorothea Drive and Topsail Boulevard. Officers located an unloaded handgun in his backpack. A 16-year-old male was arrested without incident and will appear in Dartmouth Provincial court this morning to face four weapons related offences and breach of an undertaking.