Editor’s note: Following publication of this report, charges against Tevin, Dean and Maureen McNeely were withdrawn.
Police say Saturday’s high-profile raid of a home on Yellowknife’s Bigelow Crescent was in response to a reported sexual assault and resulted in three people being charged.
Officers surrounded a home on the residential street in the early morning of May 24.
In a news release on Wednesday, RCMP said they had been informed a day earlier that “a person had been sexually assaulted” at the home and “drugs and weapons were present in the house.”
After obtaining a search warrant, a specialist unit with police dog and forensics support moved in.
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“Evidence was seized from the residence including a shotgun and drug trafficking paraphernalia. No injuries were reported,” RCMP stated.
RCMP named the people charged as Yellowknife residents Tevin McNeely, 28, Dean McNeely, 38, and Maureen McNeely, 61.
Tevin McNeely is charged with sexual assault, cocaine trafficking and weapons offences as well as failing to comply with a release order, RCMP stated.
Dean McNeely is charged with weapons offences, cocaine trafficking and failing to comply with a release order. Maureen McNeely is charged with possession for the purposes of trafficking and forcible confinement.
Police said Maureen McNeely has been released on conditions, while the two others charged have been remanded into custody.
