Recreational Drugs
Two members of the world’s most notorious outlaw motorcycle gang were arrested Wednesday following a drug-trafficking investigation in the Quebec City region.
In a release, the Sûreté du Québec said the two Hells Angels were arrested along with 14 other people following an investigation by the National Organized Crime Repression Squad (ENRCO). The probe began in 2021.
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“The arrests of the 14 men and two women, aged between 22 and 62, took place in Stoneham-et-Tewkesbury, St-Étienne-des-Grès, Quebec City, La Pocatière, Ste-Brigitte-de-Laval, St-Férréol -les-Neiges, Vallée Jonction, Lévis and Saint-Bernard,” the SQ wrote in the release.
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Read MoreA multi-unit investigation, including members of several arms of the Manitoba RCMP, seized drugs, firearms and cash while making three arrests last week.
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Manitoba RCMP say 2.5 kilograms of cocaine were recovered, along with numerous firearms and more than $25,000 in cash after it raided five homes last Friday in Fairford, about 240 kilometres north of Winnipeg.
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Read MoreIllegal marijuana dealers remain a danger to public safety six years after Parliament legalized cannabis, a Department of Health panel said yesterday. The statutory review of Bill C-45 An Act Respecting Cannabis said marijuana use among postsecondary students was also worrisome.
“The illicit cannabis market remains entrenched and too many illicit retailers continue to operate both online and physical stores,” an Expert Panel wrote in its Legislative Review Of The Cannabis Act. “We are concerned with the criminal activity that persists outside of the legal framework.”
“The illicit production and sale of cannabis poses dangers to public safety,” said Legislative Review. “For example, illicit cannabis sales support other activities of organized crime such as money laundering and possession of firearms.”
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Read MoreSeventy-two BC doctors are urging the province’s Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Bonnie Henry, to reconsider expanding prescribed safer supply (PSS), claiming the practice is unscientific and could be dangerous long-term.
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Read MoreFive men are facing a total of 52 charges after a nine-month, cross-country investigation into the Calgary organized-crime related kidnappings of two women.
The “innocent victims” were abducted in separate, “sophisticated and planned events” in May 2023 because of their connection with individuals allegedly involved in drug-related organized crime, Calgary Police Staff-Sergeant Roland Stewart said during a March 18 press conference.
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Read MoreNot only are three former clubhouses to be sold off by the government this spring, but there has been an exodus from the Kelowna chapter
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Read MoreNew Orleans Police Department (NOPD) Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick said the agency’s evidence room has been overwhelmed by rats stoned from eating cannabis.
“I said council member come back, I want you to see the tray of all of the major rodents on the floor, the cockroaches, the rats eating our marijuana,” said Kirkpatrick in a Wednesday speech to New Orleans city council.
“They’re all high.”
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Read MoreOrganized crime is active in Canadian ports, says an RCMP report. Police have sought new powers to conduct mandatory background checks on all port workers including federal Customs agents.
“Serious and organized crime remains one of the preeminent threats to Canada’s security,” said the report by the Mounties’ Criminal Intelligence Service. Of 638 gangs operating nationwide about “ten percent of organized crime groups are assessed to have access or links to the public sector to further their criminal activities or to have attempted to corrupt or infiltrate public sector agencies,” said the Public Report On Organized Crime 2023.
“Some sectors are more attractive to corruption attempts by organized crime groups,” wrote the RCMP. “Border services” and “employees at international ports who facilitate the importation and exportation of illicit goods” were targets, they said.
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Read MoreThe federal “safe supply” drug policy is senseless and destructive, says Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre. Speaking in Vancouver, Poilievre told business owners that cabinet must “break the cycle of addiction that is raging out of control in our country.”
“The drug policy has to be completely reversed,” Poilievre said Friday at a question-and-answer session with the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade. “I am to the point I don’t even know what motivates the policy right now.”
“At first I thought it was just sort of a naïve Utopianism that was driving this idea of giving out free drugs and decriminalizing these poisons,” said Poilievre. “But now the evidence is so clear that it has been a nightmare you have to ask yourself, what is motivating this policy?”
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Read MoreDeeply disturbing video from inside one of British Columbia’s safe injection sites has emerged from independent journalist, Kevin Dahlgren.
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