January plea date for Brooklyn residents charged after large drug seizure
Two Brooklyn, Queens County residents charged with producing and trafficking large amounts of drugs and other alleged crimes have had their case set over to Jan. 22 for plea.
Craig Allan Whynot, 33, and Jennifer Lynn Westhaver, 32, of Sandy Cove Rd. appeared in Liverpool Provincial Court Dec. 18.
Queens RCMP and officers from the South Shore Integrated Street Crime Unit laid the charges after seizing Sept. 28 over 100 pounds of marijuana, 5,225 illegal cigarettes, two firearms, and a crossbow.
Queens RCMP detachment Staff Sgt. Bruno Deveau said at the time the seizure was “one of biggest in the last 10 years” for this county.
Whynot is charged with production of a controlled substance, two counts of Possession of a controlled substance for the purpose of trafficking under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, and unsafe storage of a firearm contrary to the criminal code.
Westhaver is charged with production of a controlled substance and two counts of possession of a controlled substance for the purpose of trafficking.
Two search warrants were executed during that evening at 4106 Sandy Cove Road in Brooklyn and in an outbuilding located at 43 Pleasant St., Milton.
The outbuilding, according to Staff Sgt. Deveau at the time, revealed a large marijuana indoor drying operation. Plants were being dried, dropped and readied for distribution in the building.
The Brooklyn house and outbuilding contained individual bags of differing weights of cultivated marijuana, unsafely stored firearms and the unstamped cigarettes, said Staff Sgt. Deveau.
