WINNIPEG — A former member of Parliament accused of firearms trafficking has been hit with 26 new charges after an RCMP investigation uncovered 445 guns and more than four times the legal limit of explosives at his Dauphin home.
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WINNIPEG — A former member of Parliament accused of firearms trafficking has been hit with 26 new charges after an RCMP investigation uncovered 445 guns and more than four times the legal limit of explosives at his Dauphin home.
WINNIPEG — A former member of Parliament accused of firearms trafficking has been hit with 26 new charges after an RCMP investigation uncovered 445 guns and more than four times the legal limit of explosives at his Dauphin home.
Inky Mark, 78, was rearrested Aug. 12 and charged with 26 offences, including weapons trafficking, unauthorized possession of prohibited and restricted firearms, possessing firearms with ammunition without a licence or registration, failing to report lost firearms and possessing more than six kilograms of explosives. He was released from police custody.
In total, he faces 38 charges in connection with the months-long investigation, RCMP said Wednesday.
Some of the 445 firearms seized from 78-year-old Inky Mark's home in Dauphin in July. (Supplied)
“I think this is definitely going to be a wake-up call to some people,” Cpl. Barry Kirby of the RCMP west district investigative section said Wednesday.
Mark, who was as an MP in the riding of Dauphin-Swan River-Marquette from 1997 to 2010, was initially charged with 12 weapons offences, including firearms trafficking, possessing a firearm with a tampered serial number and possession of property obtained by crime.
Police seized hundreds of firearms, ammunition, an antique cannon and more than $300,000 in cash from a Dauphin residence in July.
