A major drug trafficking operation in south Winnipeg has been disrupted, police say, after they seized more than 26 kilograms of cocaine they valued at $1.5 million.<\/p>\n
A 40-year-old man and a 32-year-old woman were arrested following an organized crime unit investigation centred around a home on Satinwood Place in the St. Vital neighbourhood.<\/p>\n
The man was arrested on Sept. 16 while leaving the home with three kilograms of cocaine, police said in a news release on Tuesday. The woman was arrested at another residence.<\/p>\n
A search of the Satinwood home resulted in another 23.5 kg of cocaine being seized, in addition to the three kilograms the man had in his possession.<\/p>\n
Police also found about $780,000 in Canadian currency, a stun gun, prescription pills, drug packaging materials and other drug paraphernalia, they said at a news conference.<\/p>\n
The man is charged with multiple drug- and firearm-related offences as well as possession of proceeds of property obtained by crime.<\/p>\n
The woman is charged with several drug-related offences as well as possession of proceeds of property obtained by crime, possession of a prohibited or restricted weapon and assault with a weapon against an intimate partner.<\/p>\n
The drug seizure and arrests come five months after police announced the largest drug bust in Manitoba history.<\/p>\n
In that case, 33 people were arrested and more than $37.2 million worth of cocaine, meth and fentanyl was seized, along with guns, cash and illegal cigarettes, police said at a news conference in May. More than 525 kilograms of controlled substances were seized, with the majority confiscated in Winnipeg in late April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A major drug trafficking operation in south Winnipeg has been disrupted, police say, after they seized more than…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":923101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-923100","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\/923100","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=923100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/923101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}