MONTREAL – Police have arrested 11 suspects and seized illicit drugs and weapons on Thursday in a still-ongoing operation in Montreal.
Organized crime investigators with the Montreal police and the RCMP conducted several raids in Montreal and the surrounding area after receiving a tip.
“We received information about a clandestine laboratory producing narcotics and illicit drugs that were being sold in Montreal,” confirmed Montreal police spokesperson Constable Dany Richer.
The raids began Wednesday night, when several suspects were confronted in a parking lot at Place Versailles, a shopping centre in Anjou.
After a dramatic showdown, where shots were fired by police as one of the suspects drove towards officers, three people were arrested.
“No one was hurt,” said Richer, although police later confirmed that one of the police officers suffered minor leg injures.
Further raids conducted in four homes in McMasterville, Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Napierville and Saint-Basile-le-Grand have resulted in a total of 11 arrests: nine men and two women, aged between 20 and 45 years, as well as one minor.
All of the suspects are in custody and being questioned by police.
Officers also seized a firearm, a taser, a press for making pills, some 30,000 tablets of synthetic drugs, small amounts of ketamine, cocaine and cannabis.
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