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Winnipeg police make multiple drug-related arrests

RCMP have arrested a 25 year old man as the result of a crash in Upper Tantallon, N.S., on Saturday.
RCMP have arrested a 25 year old man as the result of a crash in Upper Tantallon, N.S., on Saturday. File / Global News

Winnipeg police have laid charges in connection with two separate drug-related incidents in the city.

On Saturday, police pulled over a vehicle in the 500 block of Balmoral Street. Two men and a woman were arrested after police found a quantity of methamphetamine, heroin and fentanyl.

Police also seized cell-phones, digital scales and drug packaging material.

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Investigators believe that these arrests and the seized items are related to drug trafficking in the city.

Robert Trevor Lander, a 41-year-old Winnipeg man, Annette Lucy Letendre, a 40-year-old Winnipeg woman and a 38-year-old man from Elie, Manitoba are all facing multiple drug-related charges.

Charges have also been laid against three men in connection with another drug related incident earlier this month.

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It happened on October 2nd in the 25 hundred block of Waverley Street.

Police seized crack cocaine, cocaine, a marijuana concentrate, money and a 9 mm handgun with a loaded magazine.

Yusuf Abdulqadir Ali, a 21-year-old, Joseph Sunday Frangi, a 25-year-old and Simalew Tolcha Mammo, a 27-year-old man, all from Winnipeg, are facing various charges. They were detained in custody.

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