Drug Crimes

• Winnipeg police say rise in reported assaults downtown linked to meth use: ‘It’s a scourge’

  'It's a horrible drug, it's a poison that creates mental illness, it creates psychosis,' says a community outreach worker about the effects of methamphetamine in Winnipeg.

  Crime

  Mar 16, 2023
  
• Alberta man arrested, charged after drug-trafficking investigation

  A 26-year-old man from the Peace River area has been arrested and charged following a drug trafficking investigation by police.

  Crime

  Jul 25, 2022
  
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• Notorious West Kelowna fentanyl dealer back in prison

  Leslie John McCulloch, 43, had gained day parole in September 2021, a couple of years into an eight-year prison sentence for charges including trafficking.

  Crime

  Feb 15, 2022
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• Canadian company’s encrypted devices helped drug traffickers, U.S. indictment says

  A federal grand jury in San Diego has indicted two men linked to Canada-based Sky Global, whose devices allegedly helped import and distribute narcotics around the world.

  Crime

  Mar 13, 2021
• ‘It takes a community’: Lethbridge takes action against drug crimes

  Lethbridge police say drug crimes are on the rise, with three drug houses being shut down in the city over the last year.

  Crime

  Jan 8, 2020
• Jeff Sessions tells prosecutors to seek death penalty for drug crimes when ‘appropriate’

  The use of death penalty has been declining in recent years in the U.S.

  Politics

  Mar 21, 2018
• Here are some of Canada’s largest drug busts over the last 25 years

  The Canadian Border Services alone made about 9,611 drug seizures in the 2015-2016 fiscal year.

  Canada

  Aug 28, 2017
• Thousands of US inmates convicted of drug crimes set for early release

  Thousands of federal inmates serving sentences for drug crimes are set for early release next month under a cost-cutting measure intended to reduce the U.S. prison population.

  Oct 6, 2015