Fourth drug seizure plea date for Whynot and Westhaver
The case of two Brooklyn residents charged with producing and trafficking large amounts of drugs and other alleged crimes has become complicated with another plea date requested by the defense.
They now have until March 19 in Bridgewater Provincial Court, where the case was heard Feb. 27, to consider their plea. This is the fourth date.
Craig Allan Whynot, 33, and Jennifer Lynn Westhaver, 32, of Sandy Cove Road appeared in Bridgewater Provincial Court Feb. 27. Their next plea date is Feb. 27 at 9:30 a.m., also in Bridgewater Provincial Court.
Queens RCMP and officers from the South Shore Integrated Street Crime Unit executed Sept. 28 search warrants at 4106 Sandy Cove Road in Brooklyn and in an outbuilding at 43 Pleasant St., Milton.
They seized over 100 pounds of marijuana, 5,225 illegal cigarettes, two firearms, and a crossbow.
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.
The outbuilding 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.
