The Montreal Police Service (SPVM) on Wednesday disbanded a major amphetamine trafficking and production network in Greater Montreal and several regions of Quebec.
More than 6.5 million tablets worth approximately $ 32.5 million have been seized so farrefers to SPVMcited an investigation initiated in September 2021 by the Organized Crime Division’s anti-gang team.
Police intervened Wednesday morning to conduct 28 searches in Montreal, Laval, Laurentians, Montérégie, Center-du-Québec and Mauricie.
The SPVM qualify for majors the searches performed in the borough of Saint-Léonard, in Boucherville, in Chambly, in Val-David, in Yamachiche, in Lanoraie, in Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines, in Saint-Hubert, in Sainte-Thérèse and in Belœil.
Investigators are particularly interested in warehouses that serve as amphetamine manufacturing areas, storage areas or both at the same time.
These raids, which mobilized 280 police from SPVM and the Sûreté du Québec (SQ), as well as various municipal bodies, led to the arrest of 8 suspects in addition to the seizure of 6.5 million amphetamine tablets, 500 kg of methamphetamine powder and 6 pressures for making tablets.
Twenty -one guns, mostly handguns, and more than $ 300,000 in cash were also seized by officers.
The network sold approximately $ 5 million worth of amphetamine per week in the province.
In an interview with isabelle is richer in the RDI, Francis Renaud, commander of the Organized Crime Division of SPVMwas so proud of the results of this operation that the traffickers were shocked.
” By attacking the proceeds of organized crime as we have succeeded in doing today, we are attacking the purchasing power of criminals, especially to obtain guns. “
We are talking about a very structured amphetamine production network, factories, laboratories and encapsulationadded Commander Francis Renaud.
More arrests are next when the DPCP has reviewed all the evidence collected so farhe concludes.
Source: Radio-Canada
