WINNIPEG \u2014 Police say they have made the largest drug bust in Manitoba history, arresting 33 people and seizing 525 kilograms of cocaine, fentanyl and other substances.<\/p>\n
It was a two-year interprovincial operation that also involved police forces in Ontario and Alberta, and with suspects alleged to have ties to the Hells Angels and Mexican drug cartels.<\/p>\n
Police say the drugs were transported from the United States in commercial transport trucks stored primarily in Ontario and Alberta, then brought to Manitoba.<\/p>\n
The operation included more than 200 warrants and production orders, and targeted major drug networks.<\/p>\n
Police have laid 174 charges against people in Manitoba, Edmonton and Brantford, Ont., and have warrants out for two other men from Brantford.<\/p>\n
Ontario Provincial Police in the Fort Frances and Dryden areas arrested another four people and seized 26 kilograms of cocaine.<\/p>\n
“We all see the crippling impact of the drug trade on a daily basis,” Cam Mackid, deputy chief of the Winnipeg Police Service, said.<\/p>\n
“Homicides, gun and gang violence, counter-exploitation, property crime, retail theft. All of these crime categories are directly impacted by the drug trade.”<\/p>\n
Seven suspects have already pleaded guilty and have been sentenced to between three and 16 years in prison, Insp. Josh Ewatski, of the Winnipeg police’s organized crime division, said.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 20, 2026.<\/p>\n
Steve Lambert, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINNIPEG \u2014 Police say they have made the largest drug bust in Manitoba history, arresting 33 people and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-682705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682705","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=682705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}