OPP seized amounts of cocaine, fentanyl, morphine, heroin, cash and other drug trafficking-related items.

There have been 23 suspected drug-related deaths in Peterborough Public Health's jurisdiction so far in 2020.

Investigators seized quantities of suspected cocaine, crack cocaine and fentanyl from a home in Brighton.

OPP executed search warrants at two homes in Campbellford where they seized cocaine, crystal meth, cash and drug trafficking-related items.

The latest opioid-related deaths brings the Peterborough's overall total to 17 in 2020 with eight of those since the beginning of May.

City of Kawartha Lakes OPP say officers seized 1.8 grams of suspected purple fentanyl and approximately 50 grams of cannabis during a traffic stop on Monday morning.

There were 30 drug-related deaths in the City of Peterborough in 2019. Just five months into 2020, there have already been 15.

Peterborough County OPP say on Feb. 19 officers launched an investigation over suspected forgery of medical prescriptions.

West Region OPP said officers responded to 12 suspected opioid overdoses between May 1 and May 17.

The BC Coroners Service says 113 people died of suspected illicit drug overdoses in March 2020, the first time the overdose death toll has topped 100 since March of last year.