Victoria police seize guns, drugs, stolen goods

Victoria Police have seized guns, drugs and stolen goods in what the force callsone of the largest property seizures in its history.

Officers with the Crime Reduction Unit found the items whileexecuting a search warrantat a home on Admirals Road in Esquimalt.

They discovered four guns and $50,000worth of drugs in the home including quantities of heroin, methamphetamine and fentanyl.

The investigation began in Augustand involved anEsquimalt woman believed to have ties to a street gang called the Nortenos, Victoria Police said.

"It's a street gang that has some associates here in Victoria," saidConst. Matt Rutherford.

"There's been people that have been arrested in the past that have some association to that street gang."

Thousands of stolen items were also found in the home and in storage lockers and vehicles on the property.

"They believe that a lot of the stuff that was stolen was obtained through shoplifting and theft from vehicles and break and enters," Rutherford said.

Some of the stolen items were traced back to a theft in 2004 including a diary written in 1939.

Investigators were able to return the diary to a family member, Rutherford said.

A 52-year-old Esquimalt woman wasarrested and faces a number of charges in connection with the guns, drugs and stolen property.