Mystery of 40,000 pills worth $200K discovered in bushes continues, RCMP say

RCMP in Richibucto proceed to analyse however 40,000 pills with an estimated thoroughfare worth of $200,000 ended up successful a wooded area, but fishy they were near determination for prime up and uncertainty they were dropped by a drone.

"Unless it was a precise ample drone," said Sgt. Guillaume Bélanger, noting the pills, believed to beryllium methamphetamine, weighed astir 18 kilograms.

That "would beryllium excessively dense for astir drones that are owned by astir radical astir here," helium said.

Officers stumbled upon the drugs adjacent West Branch Road, successful West Branch, about 19 kilometres southwest of Richibucto, Sunday portion searching the distant wooded country arsenic portion of an unrelated investigation.

Bélanger declined to divulge immoderate accusation astir the different investigation, including whether it was drug-related, oregon accidental whether constabulary were determination arsenic the effect of a tip.

Found bundled successful bushes

The drugs were discovered successful the bushes, helium said. Numerous clear, zip-top, sandwich-sized integrative bags, each filled with pills, were bundled unneurotic successful a larger instrumentality helium declined to describe, citing the integrity of the investigation.

Police person not made immoderate arrests and don't person immoderate suspects yet, Bélanger said.

"It's definite that immoderate radical cognize wherever the drugs are coming from and wherever the drugs [were] expected to go. So that's the accusation that we're trying to get."

Highly addictive, unsafe drug

Each pill goes for betwixt $3 and $5 connected the street.

It's the largest cause seizure Bélanger has seen successful the twelvemonth he's been successful Richibucto.

"And it's a cause that is highly addictive, and [a] unsafe substance," helium said. "So it's precise fortunate that these drugs are retired of the streets astatine this point."

Methamphetamine is simply a stimulant that makes radical consciousness euphoric, afloat of vigor and alert. But the effect wears disconnected quickly, starring to a "crash" that tin see aggression, hallucinations, paranoia and insomnia. This tin pb to repeated use.

In the agelong word it tin origin encephalon damage, dental erosion and tegument lesions.

Seek public's help

The meth and wide cause occupation is nary worse successful Richibucto than immoderate different community, according to Bélanger, but drugs anyplace lend to an "increase of unit and transgression behaviour and important wellness concerns, including addiction, intelligence wellness struggles and overdose risks," helium said.

"So immoderate quantity of drugs is decidedly a precedence for the RCMP, and we're trying our champion to find wherever it's coming from" to disrupt the influx.

Police are seeking the public's help, hoping to talk with anyone who whitethorn person witnessed suspicious enactment successful that country successful caller months.

Anyone with accusation is asked to interaction their section police. They tin besides supply accusation anonymously through Crime Stoppers astatine 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).