Traffic violation leads to Hamilton police seizing illegal drugs

Hamilton police have charged three people after finding illegal drugs worth about $2500 inside a car they were driving.

At about 1 a.m. Sunday morning, officers from Central division pulled over a vehicle at Ferguson Street North and Simcoe Street East in the downtown area for a traffic violation.

According to a press release, police found powder cocaine, crack cocaine and marihuana worth about $2500 inside the car.

“Also seized was cash, cell phones, scales, a prohibited knife, and other drug paraphernalia,” said Staff Sgt Frank Miscione in a press release. “It is believed that the men were cooking crack cocaine inside the vehicle as they drove around and sold it from the car.”

All three men are from Hamilton and are known to police. They were charged with two counts of possession for the purposes of trafficking cocaine and marihuana.

Two of the men were charged with possession of proceeds of crime and one was further charged for possession of a prohibited weapon and five counts of breaching a probation order.

All three men were held in custody for a bail hearing.