On May 28, 2014 members of the Owen Sound Police Service Drug Unit and the Criminal Investigation Branch executed a warrant on a downtown apartment. The search warrant followed the arrest of the apartment occupant on the main street after he left his residence.
Inside the apartment police located marihuana pre packaged for sale, scales, packaging and cash proceeds from the sale of drugs. In addition, police also located methadone, a schedule I drug used to treat opiate addiction that had not been prescribed for the suspect and a quantity of premium cuts of meat that had been stolen from local grocery stores.
Austin SOUCOUP, 53 years of Owen Sound has been charged with Possession of marihuana for the purpose of trafficking, Possession of the proceeds of crime, Possession of property obtained by crime and Possession of a Schedule I substance. He has been held for a bail hearing on May 29 to answer to the charges.