Another day, another drug dealer with a Firearms Prohibition Order is arrested with illegal drugs and illegal guns. It’s as if no policing agency in Canada bothers to keep tabs on these criminals.

And therein lies the problem.

Ontario Provincial Police arrested Gravenhurst drug dealer Jamie Marshall Robitaille for violating his Firearm Prohibition Order as part of their investigation into an illegal drug operation. At the time of his arrest, Robitaille was in possession of the following:

• a undisclosed quantity of Oxycodone pills
• 345 cannabis marijuana plants
• 15.7 pounds of cultivated cannabis marijuana
• $57,435 in Canadian currency
• associated drug paraphernalia
• a crossbow, and
• a quantity of ammunition

Jamie Marshall Robitaille was arrested and charged with six counts of possession of a firearm or ammunition contrary to a prohibition order and three drug trafficking offences.

Robitaille’s three accomplices in the marijuana grow operation, Stephanie Stainton, Darlene Bowan and Darryl Walter Durkee were also charged with offences under the Controlled Drug and Substances Act or the Cannabis Act.

All four were released from police custody on a promise to appear in court to face those charges on March 25th.

There is no news report on whether any or all of these folks showed up for their scheduled court appearance at the Ontario Court of Justice in Midland.

Congratulations to the Community Street Crime Unit (CSCU) members attached to Southern Georgian Bay, Orillia, Bracebridge and Huntsville detachments of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) for a successful operation.

Now, will the courts do their part?

Will Public Safety Minister Bill Blair and Attorney General David Lametti do their part, and overhaul Canada’s Firearm Prohibition Order scheme so police have the tools to ensure repeat offenders like Jamie Marshall Robitaille abide by the terms of their release?

So far, stone cold silence is the only answer to that question.