Former Westman MP charged with firearms offences

A former member of Parliament from Manitoba has been charged after a stockpile of ammunition and firearms — including an antique cannon — and $300,000 in cash were seized from a Dauphin home last week.

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After four weeks, your payment will increase to $24.95 plus GST every four weeks. A former member of Parliament from Manitoba has been charged after a stockpile of ammunition and firearms — including an antique cannon — and $300,000 in cash were seized from a Dauphin home last week. Manitoba RCMP charged Inky Mark, 78, with a dozen firearms-related charges, including firearms trafficking, possession of property obtained by crime, unsafe storage and careless use of a firearm.

In total, RCMP seized 439 firearms from Mark’s property, Mounties said at a news conference Monday morning. It is expected to take investigators weeks to sort through the arsenal and determine how many of the weapons were illegally possessed, but police have already identified three guns that are believed to have been illegally trafficked, and one that had a tampered serial number, RCMP Cpl. Barry Kirby said.

“At this point in time, we are still investigating. We still have a lot more exhibits to process, a lot more things to look at,” Kirby said. The charges are the result of a months-long investigation dating back to late March, when RCMP were notified that firearms charges had been laid in the United States against another Dauphin man, 73-year-old Wilfred Kachurowski.

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