On January 29, 2025, at approximately 10:00 pm Stonewall RCMP were called to Stony Mountain Institution for a report of a visitor passing drugs off to an inmate.
When officers attended, they were informed by a Corrections Canada employee that a female visiting an inmate and was observed on video handing over a suspicious bag to the inmate.
The visit was immediately stopped, and the inmate was searched.
Officers located a balloon that was filled with individual bags of what appeared to be methamphetamine, with an estimated institutional value of over $29,000.
Stonewall RCMP arrested and charged 30-year-old Latisha Lafreniere of Portage La Prairie with Possession for the Purpose of Trafficking.
Lafreniere was released for a May 26, 2025 court date.
The investigation continues.