{"id":505471,"date":"2026-02-28T15:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T15:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/505471\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T15:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T15:15:07","slug":"teen-charged-after-police-find-7-million-in-cocaine-at-toronto-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/505471\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen charged after police find $7 million in cocaine at Toronto facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In one of the largest drug busts ever executed by Durham police, 325 kilograms of cocaine was discovered<\/p>\n<p>Durham Regional Police on Friday announced the seizure of $7 million worth of cocaine from a storage facility in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery, carried out by Durham\u2019s drug enforcement unit, is one of the service\u2019s largest drug busts ever.<\/p>\n<p>On Feb. 23, officers arrested a 17-year-old male for possession of cocaine for the purposes of trafficking, then subsequently executed a search warrant at a storage facility in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>Police did not specify where the storage facility is located or what business operates from the building.<\/p>\n<p>During the search, 325 kilograms of cocaine, valued at over $7 million, was located and seized by officers.<\/p>\n<p>The Durham Regional Police Service is asking for anyone with information to contact the drug enforcement unit at 1-888-579-1520 ext. 5802, or to submit an anonymous tip to Crime Stoppers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.222tips.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">online<\/a> or at 416-222-TIPS (8477).<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In one of the largest drug busts ever executed by Durham police, 325 kilograms of cocaine was discovered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,201540,3302],"class_list":["post-505471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cocainedrug-bustdurham-regional-policedurham-policecocaine-bustdurham-regional-police-drug-bust7m-of-cocaine-seized7m-of-cocaine-seized-toronto","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505471","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=505471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}