An assistant coach of a Nanaimo minor football league team is facing charges for allegedly selling drugs during a practice.
Levar Anthony Hayden has been charged with six counts of possession for the purpose of trafficking.
Constable Gary O'Brien says the 30-year-old Thursday night after football practice. "He was arrested at a sporting field at John Barsby school, not in relation to the school it was after hours at 7 pm that led to a search warrant at a house where they seized a large quantity of suspected methamphetamine; suspected GHB; heroin and fentanyl cocaine and he also had a switchblade which is considered a prohibited weapon."
Rob Stevenson president of the South-Side Minor Football Association says a background check on Hayden was completed and it came back clean. "He was on a field with 70 80 people and to walk off of practice and do what he did, no one had ever seen that or suspected if they had it would have been reported pronto to the police."
Hayden worked with children between the ages of nine and twelve years old.
Hayden has been released from custody. His next court appearance is set for Oct. 26