A Prohibition-Order Firearms Count With No Firearm Anywhere in the Inventory, and a Street Value Calculated to the Dollar Out of Weights Published as “Over”: Thunder Bay Police Charge Terry Pelto, 38, and William Jimoh, 39, Fourteen Days After the Arrests (September 17, 2026)

THUNDER BAY — One of the two men charged in this file is accused of possessing a firearm or ammunition while under a prohibition order. The seizure inventory the Thunder Bay Police Service published alongside that charge contains drugs, cash and one large fixed blade knife. There is no firearm in it. There is no ammunition in it either.

The Count Without an Exhibit

William Jimoh, 39, of Thunder Bay is charged with possession of a firearm or ammunition contrary to a prohibition order. The charge is disjunctive by statute — either a firearm or ammunition will support it — so the absence of a gun from the list does not by itself make the count unusual. Ammunition alone would do it.

But no ammunition is listed either. The release itemises suspected fentanyl, suspected cocaine, a large fixed blade knife and cash, and nothing else. Whatever grounds the prohibition count, the Thunder Bay Police Service has not put it on the page.

The knife is separately accounted for. It belongs to Terry Pelto’s charge sheet, not Jimoh’s: Pelto, 38, of Thunder Bay, is the one charged with carrying a concealed weapon. Jimoh is not.

The Proceeds Counts Split Around a Threshold the Cash Never Reaches

The two proceeds counts sit on opposite sides of the $5,000 line. Pelto is charged over $5,000; Jimoh is charged under it. The only cash figure the force publishes for the entire file is “over $4,000.”

A proceeds count is not confined to currency — a vehicle, a phone, jewellery or any other property alleged to derive from crime will support one — so there is no contradiction here. But no property other than cash appears anywhere in the release, and the force does not break the money down by accused. One man is charged above a threshold that the published total does not itself clear, and the document contains nothing to reconcile the two figures.

A Precise Number Built Out of Imprecise Ones

The street value is given as over $17,280 — a figure carried to the dollar. The weights it is derived from are not carried to the dollar or anywhere near it: over 30 grams of suspected fentanyl, and 110 grams of suspected cocaine with no decimal place. The cash is over $4,000.

A valuation to the last dollar cannot be reconstructed from inputs published as round numbers and floors. The force does not show its per-gram rates, does not say which of the two drugs contributes what share, and does not identify the opioid by name beyond “suspected fentanyl.” The $17,280 is reproduced here because the service published it, not because this briefing can verify it.

Fourteen Days, and No Occurrence Number

Both arrests happened on Thursday, September 3, 2026 — the first at approximately 7:40 p.m. in the Limbrick Street and Vale Avenue area, the second at approximately 8:10 p.m. in the Victoria Avenue and Oakwood Avenue area, thirty minutes and several kilometres apart. The release announcing them went up on Thursday, September 17: fourteen days later.

The release also carries no occurrence or incident number, which is a departure for this force. Thunder Bay Police Service releases routinely lead with one. This one does not, and gives no reason.

What Is Not Reported

No occurrence or file number. No date for the first court appearance and no next court date. No breakdown of weight, value or cash by accused. No exact cash figure. No identification of the opioid beyond “suspected fentanyl,” and no laboratory confirmation stated for either drug. No firearm and no ammunition anywhere in the inventory despite the prohibition count. No description of the knife beyond “large fixed blade,” and no statement of where on Pelto it was carried. No residence searched and no search warrant mentioned — both seizures are described as searches of the suspects themselves. No statement of any relationship between the two men, and no explanation of why two arrests thirty minutes apart in different parts of the city belong to one investigation. No officer quoted, no rank and no spokesperson. No reason given for the fourteen-day interval.

No gang, street gang, criminal organization or outlaw motorcycle club is named anywhere in the release, and none is named or inferred here.

These allegations have not been tested in court, and Terry Pelto and William Jimoh are presumed innocent.