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.