By Chelsea Laskowski

Gun store owner’s charges tally up to 19

May 2, 2015 | 12:32 PM

Court documents allege the owner of Melfort and Nipawin gun stores raided under Project Forsetti – which targeted motorcycle clubs – didn’t stay away from club members after he got out on bail the first time.

Armand Hounjet, 43, was one of 14 men arrested in mid-January in one of the province’s largest drug raids. Hounjet owns both Badger Arms Supply in Melfort and Nipawin Gun and Tackle.

On February 13 he was released from custody after a bail hearing at Saskatoon Provincial Court. He posted $10,000 bail at that time.

Those conditions of release included a no contact order with – among others – men who’d also been arrested through Project Forsetti “or any member of the Hells Angels or Fallen Saints except through a lawyer or while in a courtroom.”

Hounjet was arrested and charged with breaching that condition of his recognizance, allegedly on March 2.

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He was again released on March 17, with a further $2,000 put towards bail. 

The 19 charges listed on that most recent recognizance document date back to July 26, 2014.

Among them are trafficking more than three kilograms of marijuana, illegally providing firearms, storing, possessing and transporting weapons illegally.

paNOW obtained the March 17 document, which outlines the conditions Hounjet is legally bound to follow, through a court request.

He’s restricted to be no more than 50 kilometres from his acreage near Star City except with permission or to travel directly to his Nipawin building.

Hounjet has a curfew, can’t apply for a passport, can be searched by police at any time, and faces weapons and cell phone restrictions.

Approximately 200 firearms including prohibited and restricted firearms and tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition were found in the Jan. 14 Project Forsetti raids in Nipawin, Melfort, Star City, Saskatoon, Warman, Red Deer, Alta, And Calgary, Alta.

Some of the drugs seized were fentanyl. They said it has the same chemical make-up as the fake oxycontin pills that caused three recent deaths in Saskatoon.

Hounjet is scheduled to be back in court on May 21.

– With files from News Talk Radio, Nigel Maxwell.

claskowski@jpbg.ca

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