{"id":141807,"date":"2025-09-13T20:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T20:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/141807\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T20:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T20:52:08","slug":"fentanyl-crack-and-stolen-liquor-seized-from-eglinton-west-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/141807\/","title":{"rendered":"Fentanyl, crack and stolen liquor seized from Eglinton West business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 54-year-old man from Toronto has been arrested and charged in connection with a lengthy drug trafficking investigation that police have designated as \u201cProject Fade.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say the suspect was allegedly trafficking narcotics through his place of business in the Eglinton Avenue West and Oakwood Avenue area.<\/p>\n<p>On Sept. 9, officers executed a search warrant at that location and seized a large quantity of drugs, including fentanyl, cocaine, crack cocaine, marijuana and hash with a street value totalling more than $105,000.<\/p>\n<p>Police also recovered unspecified quantities of liquor and other goods which they believe to be stolen.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities later arrested the owner of the business. He\u2019s been identified as Michael Nelson, 54, of Toronto, and charged him with:<\/p>\n<p>Four counts of unlawfully possessing a Schedule I Substance<\/p>\n<p>Four counts of trafficking a Schedule I Substance<\/p>\n<p>Possess for the purpose of selling (Cannabis Act)<\/p>\n<p>Possession of property obtained by crime over $5,000<\/p>\n<p>Possess property obtained by crime under $5,000<\/p>\n<p>Possess proceeds of property obtained by crime under $5,000<\/p>\n<p>He is scheduled to appear in court on Thursday, October 23, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 54-year-old man from Toronto has been arrested and charged in connection with a lengthy drug trafficking investigation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-141807","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}