Police bust drug ring
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This article was published 21/10/2017 (2350 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Winnipeg police say they’ve put a drug ring out of business.
The Winnipeg Police Service released a statement Sunday announcing three arrests from an Oct. 2 raid in south Winnipeg.
Police carried out a search warrant on an apartment in the 2500 block of Waverley Street.
Officers seized several ounces of crack cocaine and cocaine worth about $17,500, police said. Police also found $600 worth of a street drug called Shatter, which is tetrahydrocannabinol.
In addition to the drugs, officers seized a 9-millimetre handgun that had an altered serial number, ammunition, $3,000 in cash and nearly a dozen cellphones.
Yusuf Abdulqadir Ali, 21, Joseph Sunday Frangi, 25, and Simalew Tolcha Mammo, 27 face numerous trafficking and weapons charges.
Police also made a bust during a routine traffic stop this weekend, seizing fentanyl that was branded as OxyContin.
Three individuals, two men and a woman, were stopped at 9:45 a.m. Saturday on Balmoral Street in the core area. Police pulled over a vehicle they described as suspicious in the 500 block, and seized a quantity of drugs and cash.
Among the drugs were 23 pills of pressed fentanyl designed to look like 80-milligram pills of Oxycontin, police said.
Robert Trevor Lander, 41 and Annette Lucy Letendre, 40 were detained in custody. A second man, a 38-year old from Elie was charged with numerous drug offences. His name was not released and he was not detained in custody.
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Updated on Sunday, October 22, 2017 12:06 PM CDT: Removes reference to Fort Garry