WHITBY -- Two men with a large cache of drugs that included cocaine, ecstasy and LSD were busted early Tuesday by police following up on a report of a bar brawl.
Officers were called to the area of Brock and Dundas streets at about 2:15 a.m. after two suspects became involved in a verbal altercation with a group of men near the Royal Hotel, Durham police said. During the melee one of the men brandished and swung a metal baton, witnesses told cops.
The suspects had fled by the time cops arrived, but their vehicle was soon located at a gas station at the intersection of Dundas and Garden streets.
Two men in the car were arrested without incident. In the car police found two extendable batons and a backpack that contained an estimated $20,000 in drugs, including cannabis resin, cocaine, LSD, ecstasy and oxycodone.
Facing drug charges are Kris Lund-Pedersen, 35, of no fixed address and 22-year-old Christopher Leaitch of Solina Road, Clarington. Mr. Leaitch is also charged with uttering threats and possession of a dangerous weapon.
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