Suspected Lethbridge drug dealer busted with double-barrel shotgun, fentanyl, cocaine, cash

A Lethbridge man has been charged after police found $20,000 worth of drugs and cash along with a double-barrelshotgun in his home last week, police said in a statement.

Curtis Larko, 41, was arrested Thursday after police found fentanyl, cocaine, methamphetamine, morphine, marijuana, pills that resemble LSD, along with scales, drug paraphernalia and shotgun shells.

The investigation, run by the Alberta Law Enforcement Response Team (ALERT), involved Lethbridge police and RCMP.

Police opened the investigation, which centred on Larko's home in the 1500 block of St. Francis Road North, after receiving information that drug trafficking was going on.

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