{"id":504652,"date":"2026-02-28T05:59:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T05:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/504652\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T05:59:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T05:59:25","slug":"teen-arrested-in-historic-cocaine-seizure-worth-7m-durham-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/504652\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen arrested in historic cocaine seizure worth $7M: Durham police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Durham Regional Police Service says a drug investigation has resulted in one of the largest cocaine seizures in the service\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Police said officers took a 17-year-old boy into custody for possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking.<\/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\/2026\/01\/1767930311_275_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>According to a release, the investigation took place last week and concluded on Feb. 23.<\/p>\n<p>Following the probe, officers executed a search warrant at a facility in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>During the search, police seized 325 kilograms of cocaine with an estimated street value of more than $7 million.<\/p>\n<p>The accused cannot be identified under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact authorities.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Crime<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Durham Regional Police Service says a drug investigation has resulted in one of the largest cocaine seizures&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[178002,48,201303,2169,201304,201302,43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-504652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-drps","tag-canada","tag-coke-seizure","tag-crime","tag-drug-seizure","tag-durham-police","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504652","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=504652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}