A Lethbridge man is facing a stack of weapons charges after police say they found dozens of guns inside his west-side home. The Lethbridge Police Service arrested 59-year-old Daniel Hazen Stebbins on June 3, 2026, and later seized 34 firearms from his residence on Canyon Boulevard, including several prohibited weapons and guns that were not stored safely.
The investigation started in British Columbia, where Saanich Police received a report that a woman had been sent nearly 60 alarming messages and videos showing a person with many firearms. Officers learned the woman had earlier agreed to sell a gun to Stebbins, but the deal fell apart when he did not pay. She told police he then began sending the threatening messages, leaving her fearing for her safety.
After Stebbins was taken into custody for criminal harassment, Lethbridge police searched his home. Along with the 34 guns, they found items they say were not legally owned or properly secured. Stebbins now faces 15 charges: seven counts of unsafe storage of a firearm, three counts of unlawfully having a prohibited firearm, three counts of unlawfully having a prohibited device, one count of uttering threats to cause death or bodily harm, and one count of criminal harassment.
Stebbins remains in custody and is waiting for a Judicial Interim Release hearing. The charges have not been tested in court.
The seizure is the latest in a string of weapons investigations by Lethbridge police this year. In April 2026, officers pulled a loaded Sten submachine gun with a suppressor and other weapons from a vehicle and a home on the west side. That operation also turned up drugs and led to charges against two people.
