{"id":324290,"date":"2025-12-04T06:36:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T06:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/324290\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T06:36:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T06:36:14","slug":"2-people-charged-after-nearly-1-million-in-drugs-seized-at-calgary-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/324290\/","title":{"rendered":"2 people charged after nearly $1 million in drugs seized at Calgary airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>Calgary police, the RCMP and <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/canada-border-services-agency\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Canada Border Services Agency<\/a> (CBSA) have arrested and charged two people with a long list of drug and weapons charges after receiving a tip from police in Germany about an alleged plan to smuggle drugs into Canada.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>On Nov. 20, German border authorities alerted Calgary police and the <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/cbsa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CBSA<\/a> about a large shipment of drugs arriving at Calgary International Airport, which was subsequently seized by Canadian authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The following day, Calgary police executed a search warrant on an address in the 500 block of Cantrell Place, southwest, in the community of Canyon Meadows.<\/p>\n<p>More than $900,000 worth of drugs were seized, along with a loaded handgun and assorted drug paraphernalia, resulting in charges being laid against two people.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>Among the items seized were:<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t12.9 kilograms of ketamine89.2 grams of hydromorphone26.4 grams of cocaineA loaded SR9 handgun9 mm ammunitionCanadian currencyVarious drug paraphernalia, including packaging and a scale<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tA handgun and ammunition were among the items seized when Calgary police officers executed a search warrant on a home in Canyon Meadows, where two people were arrested in connection with an alleged plan to smuggle drugs into Canada from Germany.\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy: Calgary police\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The two accused, a 36-year-old man and a 34-year-old woman, have each been charged with:<\/p>\n<p>Three counts of possession of a controlled substance for the purpose of trafficking\u00a0One count of importing narcotics\u00a0One count of possession of the proceeds of crime\u00a0One count of hazardous storage of a firearm\u00a0One count of possession of a weapon dangerous to the public\u00a0One count of unauthorized possession of a restricted weapon\u00a0One count of possession of a prohibited firearm with ammunition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRemoving over $900,000 worth of drugs, along with a loaded firearm from circulation, is a major step in protecting our community from the violence and harm that often accompany organized drug trafficking,\u201d said Staff Sgt. Kerry Parsons of the Calgary police.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size Calgary police, the RCMP and Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,20005,44005,2169,114703,44,3275],"class_list":["post-324290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-border-services-agency","tag-cbsa","tag-crime","tag-drug-smuggling","tag-news","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324290","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=324290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}