May 15, 2012, Truro, Nova Scotia . . . Members of the RCMP Northeast Nova Drug Section have seized a significant amount of cocaine and arrested a 64-year-old woman.

 

On the afternoon of May 14th, around 4:00 p.m., RCMP officers seized approximately 242 grams of crack cocaine at a train station in Truro. 

 

Sixty-four-year-old Brenda Joyce Melnick from Sydney, Nova Scotia was arrested without incident and charged with Possession of Cocaine for the Purpose of Trafficking. She is scheduled to appear in Truro Provincial Court today. The investigation is continuing.

  

If you have any information on illegal drug activity in your community, please contact any RCMP Detachment, local police or Nova Scotia Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477) or by a Secure Web Tips at

www.crimestoppers.ns.ca. Calls to Crime Stoppers are not taped or traced and if police make an arrest and lay charges based on a tip, callers qualify for a cash award from $50 – $2000.

 

Source: Release