By Medicine Hat News on July 4, 2017.
Two Calgary residents who came to Medicine Hat to collect a drug debt on Canada are facing weapon and drug charges.
Medicine Hat police say that in the early morning hours of July 1 the pair forced their way into a home in the 800 block of Eighth Street N.W. After being called to the house, police located the two individuals involved, Maxime Phillippe and Sahra Johnson, and took them into custody. Phillippe is accused of showing a firearm in his attempt to collect the drug debt.
Subsequent to the arrest, Phillippe was found to be in possession of what police believe to be an ounce of methamphetamine, brass knuckles and a knife. Johnson was also carrying brass knuckles. A search of a vehicles associated with the pair uncovered a semi-automatic rifle and ammunition.