Project 'CHEETAH' dismantles international drug trafficking network

Investigators with the York Regional Police Organized Crime Enforcement Bureau, in partnership with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), Peel Regional Police, and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, dismantled a large-scale international drug trafficking network that extended to Western Canada, the United States and India.

In May 2020, officers began an investigation, dubbed Project Cheetah, into a robust network involved in importing large quantities of cocaine, ketamine, heroin and opium into Canada.

The drugs were then distributed across the country through a sophisticated system run by the traffickers.

On Thursday April 8, 2021, police in Ontario, British Columbia and California executed more than 50 search warrants, resulting in 33 people charged with more than 130 criminal offences.

Officers seized approximately $2.3 million worth of drugs including: Ten kilograms of cocaine, eight kilograms of ketamine, three kilograms of heroin and 2.5 kilograms of opium.

Investigators also seized 48 firearms and $730,000 in Canadian currency.

York Regional Police on Twitter:

With our partners,

@YRP

seized $2.3 million worth of cocaine, heroin, ketamine and opium and 48 firearms after executing more than 50 search warrants on April 8.

International drug-trafficking ring: Dismantled.

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