{"id":499762,"date":"2026-02-26T01:40:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T01:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/499762\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T01:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T01:40:13","slug":"2-edmontonians-facing-drug-charges-after-police-in-saskatoon-seize-meth-fentanyl-during-traffic-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/499762\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Edmontonians facing drug charges after police in Saskatoon seize meth, fentanyl during traffic stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two men from Edmonton have been charged for allegedly trafficking drugs in Saskatoon.<\/p>\n<p>Saskatoon RCMP says they conducted a traffic stop around 10:45 a.m. on Feb. 20, along Highway 16, east of Wynyard, SK.<\/p>\n<p>Through an investigation, officers reportedly found a bag containing 4.907 kilograms of methamphetamine\u00a0and 4.219 kilograms of fentanyl in the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Following this, two men who were inside the vehicle were taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p>RCMP have since charged Pavitar Singh and Manan Kumar, both from Edmonton, with two counts of possession of a substance for the purpose of trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>Both are expected to appear in court in Yorkton on Feb. 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men from Edmonton have been charged for allegedly trafficking drugs in Saskatoon. Saskatoon RCMP says they conducted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":{"0":"post-499762","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edmonton","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-edmonton"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499762","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=499762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}