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Calgary streets make police take over $1.18M in drugs

September 25, 2013 11:40 AM

Calgary: Calgary police have charged two men in association with a gigantic pill seizure in what they say is the biggest seizure of methamphetamines to date.

 

Police were initially cautioned about the presence of a drug trafficking ring in July 2013.

 

On September 11, officers captured two men in a northeast parking garage.

 

The Calgary Police have seized over $1m in pills and captured two individuals in association with the biggest methamphetamine bust the city has ever seen.

 

A resulting hunt of two vehicles at the scene turned up pills, money, and weapons.

 

Police considered the accompanying amounts of pills in their hunt:

 

•      10.56 kg of methamphetamine (road quality of $1,056,000)

 

•      1263.1 grams of cocaine (road quality of $126,300)

 

•      14.8 grams of split cocaine (road quality of $1,500)

 

They likewise seized:

 

•      Almost $9,500 in money

 

•      A stacked .22 calibre handgun with an augmented magazine

 

•      A GPS following gadget

 

•      Police-sort radios

 

•      Gloves and balaclavas

 

•      An hatchet, mallet, sledge, pry bar and two bats

 

Jason Quinn Antonio, 38, has been accused of:

 

•      Two tallies of ownership with the end goal of trafficking

 

•      One tally of ownership of returns of wrongdoing

 

Police say that there are further charges pending against Antonio.

 

Jose Rodolfo Cruz Rivera, 59, has been accused of one tally of trafficking a regulated substance.

 

Sgt. Jason Walker, with the CPS' Guns and Gangs Unit, says that their data on the suspects hailed from different sources and his unit is dependably enormously concerned when they find such a huge operation.

 

"At whatever point we go over associates managing in this sum with medications, it comes as an inseparable unit with roughness. These fellows. they are stakeholders in this industry, they are not kidding about ensuring their item, their lines of supply, their clients, and here and there its just interpersonal contrasts and erosion that plays into it moreover. A stacked handgun, I consider, identifies with that obviously. It's one thing to be a medication trafficker in Calgary, its an alternate to be a pill trafficker who's a danger to open wellbeing. That is an immediate concern to us."

 

Walker says that he isn't certain where the pills originated from or if their goal was even Calgary's avenues.

 

He say that the examination is proceeding and more confirmation may go to the surface throughout the following not many weeks.

 

"With this specific seizure, a great deal of stuff happened in an exceptionally short measure of time. Presently we're playing a touch of investigative get up to speed."

 

Anybody with data on the trafficking of pills is asked to call police or Crime Stoppers.

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