Cody Edward Ranger received a federal jail tenure at five years in prison during a recent sentencing hearing in Nanaimo. (Submitted image)

By NanaimoNewsNOW staff

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Nanaimo man jailed for significant drugs/weapons seizure

May 26, 2025 | 10:30 AM

NANAIMO — A man has been sentenced to a federal prison sentence following high-profile busts at Vancouver International Airport (YVR) and a south Nanaimo home.

Cody Edward Ranger, 37, pleaded guilty to a drug trafficking charge and pair of firearms offences and was jailed for five years (minus time served) during a sentencing hearing in provincial court in Nanaimo last week.

The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) reported three firearm suppressors were detected by border services officers at YVR’s cargo operations between August and October 2022.

Two “ghost” guns and one of the rifles seized by the CBSA. (submitted image)

On May 30, 2023 in coordination with the RCMP’s Vancouver Island Emergency Response Team, CBSA criminal investigators applied a search warrant at a Ninth St. home in Nanaimo, near Park Ave. Elementary School.

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In addition to a probe inside the home, two vehicles were also searched as part of the raid, resulting in the seizure of several items:

• two loaded, prohibited nine millimetre ghost guns
• a loaded, prohibited shotgun
• a nine millimetre restricted rifle with readily accessible ammunition and suppressor
• two non-restricted rifles
• nine over-capacity magazines
• 119 grams of methamphetamine
• 335 grams of cocaine
• 15 grams of MDMA;
• 10 grams of psilocybin
• 22 electronic devices

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