Seizing cocaine is nothing new for police, but seizing a Grateful Dead-themed dancing bear might be a first.<\/p>\n
According to the Saskatoon Police Service, a drug investigation ended Wednesday with officers seizing 2,149 grams of cocaine, $5,371.95 in cash, drug packaging and paraphernalia and a collectible \u201cBe@rbrick Grateful Dead Dancing Bear valued at over $1,100.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Police said a 22-year-old man and 19-year-old woman were arrested on Barrett Street, in the city\u2019s Aspen Ridge neighbourhood, just before 8 p.m. on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The officers later searched a home and vehicle on the same street, where they made the seizures.<\/p>\n
Police said the man and woman are facing six charges \u201crelated to trafficking and possession of cocaine, and proceeds of crime.\u201d<\/p>\n
Saskatoon man charged in 22 break-ins targeting storage units and compounds<\/p>\n
A 45-year-old man is facing 51 charges in connection with a series of break and enters at storage units and locked compounds.<\/p>\n
According to the Saskatoon Police Service, the break and enters occurred between November 2024 and October 2025.<\/p>\n
The charges include break and enter, wearing a disguise with intent, possession of break-and-enter tools, mischief, theft of mail and attempted theft of mail.<\/p>\n
He was arrested on Tuesday at the Saskatoon Provincial Correctional Centre and is scheduled to appear next in Saskatoon Provincial Court on August 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seizing cocaine is nothing new for police, but seizing a Grateful Dead-themed dancing bear might be a first.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":840180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-840179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840179","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=840179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/840180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}