Lethbridge weapons cache charges include weapons offence, uttering threats and drugs

Police have revealed the long list of charges being faced by a Lethbridge man who was found with a large weapons cache in his home.

• Lethbridge weapons cache leads to 28 charges

The 46-year-old's home was searched after police responded to a call of a man uttering threats as well as a firearms complaint.

Police seized 130 items from the home including a First World War-era machine gun, numerous guns as well as switchblades, a crossbow and over capacity magazines.

The man faces:

• 12 charges of unauthorized possession prohibited/restricted weapon
• 4 charges of careless use/storage of a firearm
• 2 charges of possessing a firearm/weapon obtained by commission of offence
• 2 charges of knowinglypossessing a prohibited/restricted weapon
• 2 charges of unauthorized possession of a firearm
• 2 charges of possession of a controlled substance
• 1 charge of possession of marijuana exceeding 30 grams
• 1 charge of using an imitation firearm while attempting to commit an indictable offence
• 1 charge of uttering threats to cause death or bodily harm

Carmen Nilsson lives across the street from the man and said she wasn't sure what was happening when police descended on the home on Saturday.

"I got a phone call from the police and they said there is a situation on your block, get into the basement and stay there until we phone you to come up," she said.

Nilsson said the man has lived in the areasince "just after he was born." She described himas aquiet man whokept to himself.

There could be further charges for the man pending an investigation by the Department of National Defence andthe National Weapons Enforcement Support Team.

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