{"id":529870,"date":"2026-03-11T20:33:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T20:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/529870\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T20:33:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T20:33:12","slug":"saskatchewan-border-crossing-reports-finding-opium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/529870\/","title":{"rendered":"Saskatchewan border crossing reports finding opium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A man from Brampton, Ont. man is facing drug trafficking charges after opium was seized at a Saskatchewan border crossing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Estevan RCMP, along with the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), arrested a man trying to cross into Canada at the North Portal port of entry in southeast Saskatchewan on March 4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police say the man possessed around 67 grams of opium. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Following an investigation, Estevan RCMP charged the 53-year-old from Brampton, Ont. with one count of attempting to unlawfully import a Schedule I substance and one count of attempting to smuggle goods into Canada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The accused is set to make his first appearance in Estevan Provincial Court on March 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man from Brampton, Ont. man is facing drug trafficking charges after opium was seized at a Saskatchewan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194339],"tags":[51759,49,48],"class_list":["post-529870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brampton","tag-brampton","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529870","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=529870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}