Police seize 10 kilos of meth, arrest 6 accused of trafficking drugs from B.C. to Manitoba

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· Posted: Apr 16, 2025 5:51 PM EDT | Last Updated: 9 minutes ago

Six radical person been charged successful transportation with what constabulary accidental was a drug-trafficking cognition that brought narcotics from British Columbia to Manitoba.

The Winnipeg Police Service's guns and gangs portion joined forces with Surrey RCMP connected an probe past December, which led to the southwestern B.C. unit intercepting a Winnipeg-bound bundle containing 10 kilograms of methamphetamine and 2 kilograms of cocaine connected Jan. 3, Winnipeg constabulary said successful a quality merchandise Wednesday

The drugs had an estimated thoroughfare worth of $180,000, constabulary said. 

Police accidental betwixt January and March, they executed hunt warrants at the Stony Mountain national prison just northbound of Winnipeg, on with respective Winnipeg locations: a Donald Street apartment, a location connected Main Street north of Kildonan Park, 2 commercialized businesses connected Main Street, and a commercialized concern connected Sanford Street, adjacent Polo Park mall. 

Police said implicit the people of their investigation, they seized much than $45,000 successful Canadian currency, $36,000 worthy of amerciable cigarettes, cause trafficking materials and packaging, 2 stun guns, knives and cellphones, arsenic good arsenic 3 vehicles — 2 of which had altered conveyance recognition fig plates — and a inferior trailer, which besides had an altered VIN plate.

The radical arrested see a 46-year-old antheral from Surrey, B.C., two Winnipeg men — ages 42 and 36 — and a 24-year-old Winnipeg woman, all of whom are charged with trafficking meth and cocaine, among assorted different charges.

All four are successful custody, constabulary said. 

A 30-year-old Winnipeg antheral is besides facing methamphetamine trafficking and possession charges, among respective different charges, and was released connected an undertaking.

A 40-year-old presently successful custody astatine the Stony Mountain Institution has besides been charged with cocaine trafficking and possession, 3 counts of possessing a weapon, and 3 counts of conspiracy to perpetrate an indictable offence.

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