Update to article includes information received from the RCMP on Tuesday (Dec. 19) afternoon
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A search warrant was executed at Urquhart Avenue on Saturday, according to RCMP.
Media relations officer Const. Monika Terragni on Tuesday said the activity at Urquhart Avenue was a search warrant involving potential to encounter firearms. Terragni said there were no injuries.
The Emergency Response Team, Major Crime Unit, Special Victims Unit, and frontline responders were involved in the search. The Integrated Forensic Identification Section gathered evidence at the scene.
RCMP said there is no immediate risk to the community. The investigation is ongoing.
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(Original article)
Armoured police raided a home in Courtenay on Saturday morning (Dec. 16).
At 9:10 a.m., Cindy Fiddler captured a photo outside 2378 Urquhart Ave. It shows a 10-foot-tall armoured police vehicle parked in the driveway, blue and red lights flashing, and police officers instructing a person to walk off the property.
Fiddler lives in the house, and was awoken by the raid. She opened the front door, she said, to find police officers with long guns ready to break it down.
Fiddler told the Record the search was for one tenant, who was not home at the time. Undercover-looking police officers, some dressed in jeans, plaid, hoodies and baseball caps but also bulletproof vests, did not share any information when asked.
At 11 a.m., four unmarked police vehicles remained on scene. A police photographer with a breathing mask filtered in and out of the open front door, and could be seen through a shattered window snapping flash photographs on ground level. The sound of drawers opening and closing filled space between photographs.
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