TIMMINS — November 5, 2026
Two Timmins residents are facing a long list of drug-trafficking and firearms charges after police executed a search warrant at a Preston Street residence on the morning of
Wednesday, November 4, and seized drugs with an estimated street value of $102,000, a loaded 9mm handgun and more than $18,000 in cash. Nathan Homer, 38, and Rebecca Homer, 34, both of Timmins, have been jointly charged in the investigation, led by the Timmins Police Service Drug Enforcement Unit working with the OPP Northeast Region Community Street Crime Unit.
Police say the investigation began in October 2026, after officers identified the Preston Street residence as a suspected location for drug trafficking. On Wednesday morning, officers executed a Controlled Drugs and Substances Act warrant at the home, with assistance from the Timmins Police Emergency Response Team and the service’s Remotely Piloted Aircraft System unit — the tactical team and drone support that have become the standard package for warrants where firearms are a possibility.
The seizure list is headed by the drugs. Officers report seizing 310 grams of fentanyl, 250 grams of crystal methamphetamine and 850 methamphetamine tablets, 54 grams of cocaine, 164 Percocet tablets, and MDMA in two forms — 14 tablets and an additional 45 grams. Alongside the drugs, police seized one loaded 9mm handgun and more than $18,000 in Canadian currency. The total estimated street value of the drugs is $102,000, according to police. The fentanyl figure alone is the one investigators will underline: fentanyl is potent in milligram quantities — police and health authorities commonly note that as little as two milligrams of pure fentanyl can be a lethal dose — so a seizure measured in hundreds of grams represents, in the arithmetic of the street trade, an enormous number of potential doses removed from circulation in a single morning.
The charges laid jointly against the two accused reflect both sides of the seizure. On the drug side, they are charged with possession for the purpose of trafficking in five substances: cocaine, methamphetamine, fentanyl, oxycodone and MDMA. On the firearms side, the charges include multiple unauthorized possession offences, possession of a loaded prohibited or restricted firearm, possession of a prohibited device or ammunition, possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose, and careless storage of a firearm. Both are also charged with possession of property obtained by crime over $5,000 and possession of proceeds of property obtained by crime over $5,000. None of the charges has been tested in court, and both accused are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
Staff Sergeant Camirand of the Timmins Police said the seizure of multiple illicit substances, including fentanyl, alongside a loaded firearm highlights the risks associated with drug trafficking in the community, and credited the service’s ongoing partnership with the OPP Northeast Region Community Street Crime Unit for helping disrupt suspected trafficking activity in Timmins. That partnership is the through-line of the city’s drug enforcement this fall. The Preston Street warrant is the latest in a run of joint Drug Enforcement Unit and Street Crime Unit investigations in Timmins in recent months, including a September investigation that produced an October 8 search on Balsam Street North and a September 30 warrant on Laidlaw Street — a pattern of intelligence-led warrants moving through residential streets across the city rather than a single isolated raid.
The combination seized on Preston Street — bulk fentanyl and methamphetamine, pills in the hundreds, cash, and a loaded handgun in the same residence — is the profile police in northeastern Ontario have repeatedly described as the region’s trafficking model: multiple drug types sold from one location, serving different customers, with a firearm kept where the drugs and money are. It is also why warrants of this kind are executed in the morning by tactical officers rather than knocked on by a patrol constable. The presence of the Emergency Response Team and the drone unit on Wednesday was announced in the release as a matter of routine, and the search was completed and the charges laid the same day.
What happens next is the court process in Timmins, where the charges against Nathan Homer and Rebecca Homer will be spoken to, disclosure exchanged, and the evidence from Wednesday’s search — the drugs, the firearm and the cash — tested through the proceedings. RL News will update this story as court dates and any further police information become available.
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