The Canada Border Services Agency says a man from Nanaimo has been charged with nine counts of gun and drug-related offences.
The agency says it launched an investigation after border officers inspected three firearm suppressors at the Vancouver airport between August and October 2022.
It says investigators searched a home in Nanaimo the following spring, seizing two so-called "ghost" guns along with a loaded, prohibited shotgun, a restricted rifle and more than 450 grams combined of cocaine and methamphetamine.
A year after that search and seizure, the agency says a man has been charged with three counts of possessing drugs for the purpose of trafficking as well as three counts related to unauthorized possession of guns.
