More than four years after he was acquitted of murder, a London man is now charged after police seized more than a quarter of a million dollars worth of drugs.
Mohamed Sail and three other men have been charged with various drug offences after warrants were executed at three London addresses this week.
London police searched the homes on Cherryhill Place, Windsor Crescent, and Dundas Street on Tuesday.
Officers seized 708 grams of cocaine, 754 grams of fentanyl, 131 grams of crystal methamphetamine, 3,000 grams of the cutting agent phenacetin, a loaded semi-automatic handgun, ammunition, a large scale, eight cell phones, and a money counter. Approximately $20,000 was also found. Police estimate the value of the drugs at over $265,000. Four people, including Sail, were arrested.
Sail, who is now 31, was charged with second degree murder in 2014 in a case that made national news. Jeremy Cook, 18, was shot and killed in a parking lot in east London while trying to retrieve a cell phone he had lost in a taxi cab the night before.
Using a tracking app, he was able to pinpoint the phone in a parking lot near the corner of Highbury Avenue and Huron Street. Cook eventually encountered Sail and another man named Muhab Sultan, and was shot while holding on to Sultan’s Mazda 6 as he tried to speed away.
Witnesses eventually found Cook's body behind a Shopper's Drug Mart not far from where the confrontation had happened.
Sultan drowned in the Rideau River while trying to escape Ottawa Police ten days after Cook was murdered. He was wanted on a Canada-wide warrant.
In 2017, Sail was acquitted of Cook’s murder when a jury couldn’t say whether he or Sultan had been the one to murder the then-Fanshawe College student.
Sail also faced charges in 2018, when he was charged with three counts of drug posession.
He, along with 23-year-old Ajmain Rahman, 24-year-old Shawn Phan, and 24-year-old Sammy Siddig are all charged with three counts of possession of a Schedule I substance for the purpose of trafficking, possession of a prohibited firearm, possession of a loaded prohibited firearm, unsafe storage of a firearm, unsafe storage of ammunition, and possession of a firearm with an altered serial number.
Sail also faces two counts of breach of weapons prohibition.
He was scheduled to appear in court on Wednesday.