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Three people were arrested after Ontario police seized 1,000 kilograms of pure ? . It's the force's largest ever drug bust.
A tip from a member of the public has triggered the single largest drug seizure in the history of the Ontario Provincial Police.
The force netted 1,062 kg of 97 per cent pure ? which had a wholesale value of $60 million and an estimated street value of $250 million, OPP commissioner Vince Hawkes said Monday at a press conference at OPP headquarters in Orillia.
Armed tactical officers stood guard at the press conference near the wall of multi-coloured ? bricks on display. There was a further armed guard at the entranceway to the OPP complex.
That ? will be destroyed at a secret location, Hawkes said.
“There’s a lot of drugs out there and drugs are killing people,” Hawkes said.
“It’s an amazing size seizure,” OPP deputy commissioner Rick Barnum said, adding the investigation is ongoing.
The OPP declined to elaborate on the tip that started the massive operation.
“This is a massive seizure – bigger than I’ve seen in my 33 years of policing,” Hawkes said.
“Good information was received,” Barnum said.
The initial arrests were made after a traffic stop on Highway 410 in May.
The drug would have been cut down to between 30 and 40 per cent purity before it reached the streets, often with particularly deadly additives liken fentanyl, Barnum said.
“With the amount of pure ? seized during Project HOPE, we’ve stopped many criminals from causing more harm to our communities while removing a quarter of a billion dollars from the criminal’s economy,” Hawkes said.
Despite the massive amount of ? seized, there hasn’t been a noticeable change in the price of the drugs on the streets, Hawkes said.
Most of the stones containing bricks of ? had a kilogram hidden inside. The most found in a single stone was six kilograms, Barnum said.
Some of the stones were seized at a stone supply operation in Stoney Creek.
“Certainly the business was set up to be a front or a cover,” Barnum said, adding it wasn’t known where the ? was initially produced.
“There are definitely connections to Mexico and the Mexican cartels,” he said.
The Mexican cartels have members living in the GTA, he said.
The ? was smuggled in pallets of building stones.
“Our dogs – CBSA dogs – never detected the ? ,” Barnum said.
He declined to say who would have distributed the drugs in Canada, except to say they are “extremely high-level organized crime groups.”
The haul was called Project Hope and was in partnership with the Canada Border Services Agency, Peel Regional Police, the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency.
The ? was loaded onto ships in Argentina, destined for the Port of Montreal and then the GTA, Niagara Region and other parts of Canada, police said.
Luis Enrique Karim-Altamirano, 52, of Vaughan has a bail hearing on Aug. 30. He is charged with importation of a controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance for the purposes of trafficking and driving while disqualified.
Mauricio Antonio Medina-Gatica, 36, of Brampton, has been freed on bail after being charged May 1 with importation of a controlled substance and possession of a controlled substance for the purposes of trafficking.
Iban Orozco-Lomeli, 45, of Toronto was charged July 10 with importation of a controlled substance and possession of a controlled substance for the purposes of trafficking. He has also been released on bail.
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A tip from a member of the public has triggered the single largest drug seizure in the history of the Ontario Provincial Police.
The force netted 1,062 kg of 97 per cent pure ? which had a wholesale value of $60 million and an estimated street value of $250 million, OPP commissioner Vince Hawkes said Monday at a press conference at OPP headquarters in Orillia.
Armed tactical officers stood guard at the press conference near the wall of multi-coloured ? bricks on display. There was a further armed guard at the entranceway to the OPP complex.
That ? will be destroyed at a secret location, Hawkes said.
“There’s a lot of drugs out there and drugs are killing people,” Hawkes said.
“It’s an amazing size seizure,” OPP deputy commissioner Rick Barnum said, adding the investigation is ongoing.
The OPP declined to elaborate on the tip that started the massive operation.
“This is a massive seizure – bigger than I’ve seen in my 33 years of policing,” Hawkes said.
“Good information was received,” Barnum said.
The initial arrests were made after a traffic stop on Highway 410 in May.
The drug would have been cut down to between 30 and 40 per cent purity before it reached the streets, often with particularly deadly additives liken fentanyl, Barnum said.
“With the amount of pure ? seized during Project HOPE, we’ve stopped many criminals from causing more harm to our communities while removing a quarter of a billion dollars from the criminal’s economy,” Hawkes said.
Despite the massive amount of ? seized, there hasn’t been a noticeable change in the price of the drugs on the streets, Hawkes said.
Most of the stones containing bricks of ? had a kilogram hidden inside. The most found in a single stone was six kilograms, Barnum said.
Some of the stones were seized at a stone supply operation in Stoney Creek.
“Certainly the business was set up to be a front or a cover,” Barnum said, adding it wasn’t known where the ? was initially produced.
“There are definitely connections to Mexico and the Mexican cartels,” he said.
The Mexican cartels have members living in the GTA, he said.
The ? was smuggled in pallets of building stones.
“Our dogs – CBSA dogs – never detected the ? ,” Barnum said.
He declined to say who would have distributed the drugs in Canada, except to say they are “extremely high-level organized crime groups.”
The haul was called Project Hope and was in partnership with the Canada Border Services Agency, Peel Regional Police, the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency.
The ? was loaded onto ships in Argentina, destined for the Port of Montreal and then the GTA, Niagara Region and other parts of Canada, police said.
Luis Enrique Karim-Altamirano, 52, of Vaughan has a bail hearing on Aug. 30. He is charged with importation of a controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance for the purposes of trafficking and driving while disqualified.
Mauricio Antonio Medina-Gatica, 36, of Brampton, has been freed on bail after being charged May 1 with importation of a controlled substance and possession of a controlled substance for the purposes of trafficking.
Iban Orozco-Lomeli, 45, of Toronto was charged July 10 with importation of a controlled substance and possession of a controlled substance for the purposes of trafficking. He has also been released on bail.
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these guys really be going home feeling like they did something
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if ? wouldve found those bricks..every hood would be flooded with this BS
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Idk who snitched but I hope ? takes mercy on them and their family's souls because the streets aren't.... 250mil...some people bout to die
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About as effective as catching a raindrop and thinking you stopped the rain
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Talk about, Rock..? -
destroyed at secret location?
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Leave alone we wana get high
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? canadians. Bringing drugs to the world
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Whenever i hear about these major drug busts
All i think is
Someone didnt get paid off, someone disrespected someone or someone snitched
U dont just happen to come across 250 milli in drugs like that
A lot of ppl are going to die as a result -
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DoubleShotHelix wrote: »Idk who snitched but I hope ? takes mercy on them and their family's souls because the streets aren't.... 250mil...some people bout to die
Preach -
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Legalize drugs.
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DoubleShotHelix wrote: »Idk who snitched but I hope ? takes mercy on them and their family's souls because the streets aren't.... 250mil...some people bout to die
? who snitched they deserve whatever ? up death is coming their way.
Now the family of the snitch I agree with you on. -
Two of the three people are out on bail? I bet they promised never to do it again. Canada is too nice. Hilarious!
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BigBallsNoWorries wrote: »Whenever i hear about these major drug busts
All i think is
Someone didnt get paid off, someone disrespected someone or someone snitched
A lot of ppl are going to die as a result
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They should just go ahead and legalize medicinal ?
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BigBallsNoWorries wrote: »Whenever i hear about these major drug busts
All i think is
Someone didnt get paid off, someone disrespected someone or someone snitched
U dont just happen to come across 250 milli in drugs like that
A lot of ppl are going to die as a result
or the cartel tipped off the authorities, so the load right behind it w/ 10,000 blocks can get thru smoove -
People fail to realize..coca leaves suppose to be use for Medicine not to get high
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Tyrone Biggums looking at the thread title confused as ? lmao
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Turfaholic wrote: »They should just go ahead and legalize medicinal ?
From what the article said they're more concerned about what they were gonna cut it with -
OnnaThursday wrote: »Turfaholic wrote: »They should just go ahead and legalize medicinal ?
From what the article said they're more concerned about what they were gonna cut it with
only b/c of where it was and the purity.....nobody gives a ? about that here......we know its cut down to ? by the time it gets to us lol
when the last time ya'll heard about somebody overdosing on ? ?...not a heart attack or none of that but straight O/D......you know how much of this ? u gotta do to die directly from it?......you'll have chemical burns from the acetone and a ? up stomach from the baby laxatives long before that happens -
BigBallsNoWorries wrote: »Whenever i hear about these major drug busts
All i think is
Someone didnt get paid off, someone disrespected someone or someone snitched
U dont just happen to come across 250 milli in drugs like that
A lot of ppl are going to die as a result
or the cartel tipped off the authorities, so the load right behind it w/ 10,000 blocks can get thru smoove
That would make sense but this load was way too much for any cartel to lose like that
