A huge drug bust by police has netted $2.7-million in narcotics involving 12 suspects from Thunder Bay and Toronto.
Thunder Bay police, along with Provincial and Toronto police, as well as Canada Border Services Agency, say Project Valiant took place between August and December of last year, resulting in a number of locations in Thunder Bay being raided, and one in Markham.
Police say 1.55kgs of cocaine were found, as well as 11.9kgs of fentanyl, over 4,000 oxycodone pills, hundreds of packages of cannabis edibles, 15 different styles of guns, a crossbow, 2 high capacity magazines, 2 tasers and thousands of rounds of ammunition.
4 cars were also seized, a motorcycle, fake government identification and drug paraphernalia.
Six people, ranging in age from 20 to 29, from the Toronto area, face numerous charges, while the youngest from Thunder Bay is 20, the oldest is 62.
Police add for many years they’ve been watching people, often violent and associated with gangs from southern and eastern Ontario, make their way north for the purpose of drug trafficking. Thunder Bay police say they will continue to work with their law enforcement partners to disrupt this type of activity on our communities. However, they add while this will cause some disruption in the drug trade, it is up to the general public to get a hold of elected officials to voice concerns of this continual problem, while police focus on their task at hand to take drugs off the streets.
