Grande Prairie Rural RCMP conducts drug-related arrests after calls from the public
Media Relations RCMP Alberta
August 15, 2025 at 5:06:27 p.m.

Alberta News
Clairmont, Alta. - On Aug. 9, 2025, at approximately 07:41 AM, Grande Prairie Rural RCMP received a call regarding a male slumped over the wheel in a vehicle in the middle of the road. Police attended and observed a male driver, who was later arrested, heavily asleep in the vehicle, with drug paraphernalia in plain view.
A search of the vehicle incidental to arrest resulted in the seizure of:
$2080 in Canadian currency
99 grams of suspected methamphetamine;
19 grams of suspected fentanyl;
Drug trafficking paraphernalia;
A loaded crossbow;
A flame thrower; and
A prohibited knife.
Some of the drugs were stored in a backpack labeled “Support your local drug dealer”.
As a result of the investigation, Fraser Pearson (40), a resident of Dawson Creek, BC, was charged with:
Possession for the purpose of trafficking – Fentanyl;
Possession for the purpose of trafficking – Methamphetamine;
Fail to comply with probation order (x2);
Weapons possession contrary to order (x2);
Unauthorized possession of a prohibited weapon; and
Possession of property obtained by crime under $5000.
Pearson was brought before a justice of the peace and remanded into custody. He appeared before the Alberta Court of Justice in Grande Prairie on Aug. 11, 2025.









