Four charged in $2M drug investigation in Scarborough
Posted June 15, 2023 1:57 pm.
Toronto police have charged four people in connection with a drug investigation after a vehicle stop in Scarborough.
On June 4 officers responded to a call about a suspected impaired driver in the Morningside Avenue and Ellesmere Road area where they allegedly found a vehicle stopped in the middle of the road with an unconscious male in the driver’s seat.
A quantity of drugs and money were in the vehicle along with a laptop, a machine to cut identification cards and counterfeit Ontario Ministry of Transportation items.
Stephen Sampson, 32, of Toronto, was charged with impaired driving, failure or refusal to provide a sample, almost 70 drug-related charges, and possession of proceeds of crime over $5,000.
Investigators obtained search warrants for Sampson’s residence in the Lawrence Avenue East and Beechgrove Drive area where cash, drug paraphernalia, equipment to make fake prescription bottle labels and a number of drugs with an approximate street value of up to $2,000,000 were seized, including approximately nine kilograms of crystal methamphetamine.
Sampson along with with his brother Daniel Sampson 31, mother Camile Sampson, 65, and Mia Brinton, 18, all of Toronto, are all facing more than 15 drug-related charges.
