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Man & woman arrested by Lethbridge Police, $27,000 worth of meth seized

Lethbridge Police have seized a pile of drugs following a short term investigation.

On Tuesday (Mar. 24), members of the LPS Crime Suppression Team executed warrants on 12th Avenue South, 12 B Street South, and on Temple Boulevard on the west side.

The searches recovered 450 grams of meth worth over $27,000 along with some cocaine, cash, two conducted energy weapons, an airsoft gun which police say looks like an assault rifle, some stolen electronics and several used prepaid Visa cards.

33 year old Nichola Stephen Galbraith and 23 year old Hope Victoria Ann Pogue, both of Lethbridge, are facing a long list of charges.

The pair has been released from custodyon undertakings  and will appear in court in June.

Patrick Siedlecki
Patrick Siedlecki
Pat has been a mainstay in the CJOC News department from the time the station launched in 2007. He's been in the position of News Director since then and has been anchoring daily news casts as well as reporting and working behind the scenes. Community is important to him and keeping CJOC listeners and readers informed about what's happening across southern Alberta and beyond. Pat has been in radio broadcasting for the past 24 years, starting in Port Alberni on Vancouver Island in 1997 and then moving up island to Nanaimo for another few years before heading to Lethbridge in 2007. Pat grew up in the small Saskatchewan farming town of Foam Lake. After high school, he went to Western Academy Broadcasting College (WABC) in Saskatoon prior to moving to the island. Pat also spent several years broadcasting hockey in the BCHL as well as seven years as the radio voice of the Lethbridge Hurricanes in the WHL. Pat has been working at Cornerstone Funeral Home in Lethbridge as a Certified Life Celebrant and Funeral Assistant since 2016. News and sports have always been Pat's passion from the time he was a teenager and he's always been grateful to have had the opportunity to make that part of what's been a fun and long radio career!
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