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LIBRARY AND ARCHIVESS CANADA Bibliothèque et Archives Canada JJ.OR INA Ila 5 II I I II J II II I II F'`iI 3 3286 1 Canada Library and Archives Newspaper Collection 395 Wellington St. K1 ON4 j Ottawa, ON A Reg. No. 10963 Il. Pub. No. 40016309 a..r ' jig North America's #1 Native Weekly Newspaper Turtle Island News, celebrating 15 years Okarahshona kenh Onkwehonwene, Six Nations of the Grand Wednesday April 29, 2009 Police raids Oneida and Six Nations Six Nations Police uncover weapons cach Police raids net over $200,000 in cash, guns, V 6` -, drugs and stolen goods k 5 k By Lynda Powless and Susannah Schmidt Writers Five Six Nations people are facing a series of drug, stolen e - goods and gun related charges after police swept down on two Six Nations businesses last Wednesday morning and an- other in Oneida, in unrelated raids. Police confiscated $210,000 in tional Services. The Ministry is look - Canadian cash, 20 firearms, over ing into the matter. $41,000 in marijuana and stolen (Continued page 3) goods ranging from 10 ATVS to more than 30 stolen GPS devices. Five men and a woman are facing /7-4., more than 34 charges. J . , 0 A sixth man has been arrested . An Oneida man faces charges after 1f ,q officers seized firearms, marijuana and $300,000 in Canadian currency t in a raid on Oneida First Nation ter- ritory near London. U It isn't known if Six Nations will be able to retain the seized $210,000 as proceeds of crime. r -- A spokesperson with the Ontario At- t - torney General's office said Tuesday r 'II(M(M if the court orders the proceeds for- . feited tathe provincial office it could be used to pay for costs of crime pre- rfi t vention, law enforcement or the ad- r ministration of justice. He referred questions on retaining the funds for Six Nations Police Canst. Tim i . Six Nations policing to the Ministry Somberly carries out bags of - 1 of Community Safety and Corree- marijuana from a First Line barn. Six Nations police officers carry out guns during a raid of the First Line home of Donald Tripp. Tripp is fac- ing a series of gun and drug charges. It was one of three simultaneous but separate raids that took place in southern Ontario First Nations. A second Six Nations residence and business was raided along with an Inside- 1-- h! Oneida home. (Photo by Jim C Powless) Local 2 Editorial 6 US Homeland Security won't accept status Sports .8 Earth Day Festival 10 Careers 17 cards without a chip r; Classified 19 PA. By Susannah Schmidt invite Indian Affairs staff to Six Protection Agency, refused to com- Business Directory 18 Writer Nations to explain the problem. ment on the issue. .1 4OM The U.S. Department of Home- INAC alerted Six Nations that the INAC spokesperson Patricia Val - Price $1.25 land Security has rejected Indian Department of Homeland Security ladao did not return Turtle Island . Daily news updates &a®î and Northern Affairs' new status has rejected the new status card. News calls by press time. áTORRFFACnON . www.theturtleislandnews.com card as a border -crossing docu- "They're not going to recognize it The news comes after INAC has SUPÉRIEURE .0\ ment. unless they put a chip in there," repeatedly - stressed that the cards 01> TIOV111 R 5am1:30am_ Six Nations elected council councillor Helen Millet told do not have a chip in them - a learned last week Homeland Secu- elected council April 21. concern raised by Six Nations peo- Pi . free rity will only accept the new status Miller said an INAC memo to ple in mid -March when INAC LIMITED TIME OFFER - ENDS MAY 3RD card if it has an "enhanced" RFID council detailed the development. came to Six Nations to make new i i chip. Joanne Ferreira, a spokesperson cards for residents. 282 Argyle Stit! S Caledoniak o 74470 04551 9 Elected council voted April 21 to for the U..S. 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It will he forever lodged in Monour said in his 17 rase Six OPP raid at the former Douglas my memory;' she said. Nations it was the largest seizure g Creek Estates, a small gaup of "I managed to solo the mad and 1 once bald witnessed. children runners waving Six Na- would look from side to side and Ifs also De fw time Six Nations Bags led s caravan front to back and see nothing but ilk aa Ire ''^ Police have searched more than m through De min froma the Silver policemen, or ten arresting pw location ductal eously mod of a o mirk inside the sole pie, and running after people, and 9 W .I ti huger investigation he said. home roam. the site. people running. -land it win] 4:20 ?. "We had a search team at Jasper, X ti. and a search team at Tripp's both A Y w ararching at.e same time," he said. --- F -11 t5 ts been the .d gun here and there, >._ ./ but nothing to this extent," he id. !} "So -- this is the guff that, in our - 3.1[17 communty," mad Montour. 111 RL 17Z,ff At Six Nations Police headquar- ters, Montour and ...Tarty Mar - , who passed away suddenly last ma griatrne Martin, Its, Colby Marvin, M. Joky llama ran and warned the trek repealing she path winks took Friday April 2401, looked soberly three years ago when they hushed back OPP Thee led a carman foam through the ruin Colby says sits % at the table of seized firearms and all about the land. by Jim C Pawlm.l ¡ (Photo - drugs. ing moms on Me other side It "Lately, the community is outraged Sie Nations bonne answerqueslionslom South American of Don ems f was quite surreal going through the See Nationspetkeconfiscated a number ef handguns from esippl barn towards die drug habit. Well, the Tripp, Whop was arrested jog outside Ohsweken lag Wednesday. barricades, stopping by to visit fast week (Photos by Jim CPo ols's) proofs in the pudding here," he said (Photos by Jim C'sonlen I people at the site then going to kits believed to be stole, said Mon - Maew. three polka stood eu .s sae as a fmom, Mmes Mda agar sas (Continued from Wong firm He saids police neat. comity vat relo Sá Nation Police obtained wanan. lout' mum a sped into the driva Wagons. and possession of property The caravan marked the third an- n the morning," aid Stones. who She said it was diffwit. "1 wanted to get involved with putting way pryer' frthe raids bad on Wormier "Thevehiclegetsazulenit gees re- kerb wirer, man. ...neat, crime. Oro coon.... rsary 60 the April 20, 2006 was five months pregnant at the lobe here [ at and had just started al covered down here,bmtlús is where digs Six Nina "You guys have got to leave. (doll session ofmarhuana for the purpose early morning mid. CH. It was very grange, at times it "There's a cry out there from the police people were trafficking in illicit Mc fast-sell items edlp, he said. want anything in the papy. If you of trafficking ana seven courts of Heavily -armed police stole into rMatin aid watching Six Nations was hard especially when the inci- mmmmltY about stopping selling on both reactor. Sù Norm Police recovered 689 print anything " she aid, as police possession of stolen property valued the site just before 4:30 rearm penile "get a stronghold" at the dent with the camera man hap- stolen vehicles m the territory in The raids Oral began call Walla, ansmago. site, facing so many heavily arm. pend. I heard it from people at f day morning at the First tae acme 2 ' him tempt túil6pe,} "Ere, will dune her. work and then phoned people here, Six Nations Police said they believe Kathy Wedge of Donald Tripp,a room f I Nedin ridfailed mama to mkt Sia $ ghhere now. they mid could leave if I wanted alma of the Nations inn's theshopwas'volvd man illegal Tmee' ga oaring and is furnished with Six Fire, cul- h... repkbdshr reclaimed: feel rhos tightening ìbut fore- . q they saw I was upset. I wanted pawmbmker-type operation linked eight month . as did her nephew a wooden Moro Six Mar the hods Ks comforting, b mintat Me huge table and a hodge to be here, not those. torero was deig.