Northern police officials have seized $187,000 worth of drugs and arrested five people in a two month joint forces operation.
In a media release issued on Wednesday, the Greater Sudbury Police Services said officers worked with Ontario Provincial Police officials to lay charges after 'disrupting a cocaine trafficking network’.
Police said the investigation focused on drug traffickers in Greater Sudbury and Northern Ontario who were receiving large quantities of cocaine from Southern Ontario.
Along with the drug seizure, police laid 37 drug and weapons related offences against five people; two from Greater Sudbury, two from Thunder Bay and one from Bradford.
“The Greater Sudbury Police Service Integrated Crime Team will continue to focus its efforts on major crime operations that pose a direct and elevated threat to the safety, security and wellness of our community,” reads a statement from police.
“The Integrated Crime Team aims to identify and disrupt organized crime in Greater Sudbury through innovative technology, collaborative partnerships and traditional Police work resulting in the arrests of those involved, holding them accountable for their criminal activities and the seizure of illegal drugs, prohibited firearms and proceeds of crime.”
Police said the seizures included the following:
- 1.85 kilograms of cocaine
- 98 oxycodone tablets
- Quantities of morphine, cannabis marihuana and psilocybin
- Two prohibited sawed-off shotguns with ammunition
- One .41 calibre Magnum revolver
- Six non-restricted firearms
- Prohibited handgun ammunition
- Prohibited magazines for firearms
- 14 different types of ammunition
- Over $23,000 currency
- Two motor vehicles (offence related property)
