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In a news release issued Monday, Thunder Bay police said four loaded handguns, two loaded shotguns, drugs and cash had been seized in a takedown that swept up three males and one female. Ranger was one of the males. The raid included what that force called “two high-risk vehicle stops and a search warrant at a north side residence.”

Thunder Bay police said some of the arrested people have ties to the Ottawa area but none has yet appeared in court.

Ranger and Galloway were former lovers who have a daughter together. Before the Farriers Lane shooting, Ranger had grown angry at Galloway for what he claimed was trying to keep their daughter from him, posting public online rants criticizing her and saying that children need their fathers.

The now slain Kim and Ranger had also been friends. But, allegations surfaced among gang circles that Kim had snitched on Ranger to police. A new romance between Kim and Galloway heightened tensions among the three.

Ranger has a criminal record. He and Galloway were charged together after a guns and gangs raid in Vanier in 2012. The former lovers were charged after a warrant turned up a 9-mm handgun, cocaine, oxycodone and marijuana. Galloway’s charges, however, were later withdrawn.

Ranger was also convicted of kidnapping and extortion after he and two others jumped a man in a stairwell in 2008, duct-taped his ankles and loaded him into a Cadillac. The man was beaten and robbed and Ranger was sent to jail.

Ranger was also charged with fraud in 2006 for allegedly skimming credit cards at a gas station. He was convicted of assault in 2012 and has recent convictions for drug charges and dangerous driving in 2015.

It’s not yet known when he will appear in Thunder Bay court. He remains in police custody.

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