Huge North American cocaine trafficking network linked to Mississauga murder: police [Video]

A man arrested earlier this month in Mexico in connection with a 2023 double murder in Caledon and a Brampton murder in May is also one of two men charged in a Mississauga slaying earlier this year, Canadian and U.S. law enforcement officials said on Thursday.

A vast transnational cocaine trafficking network stretching from Colombia and Mexico to Southern California, other parts of the U.S. and into Canada is believed to be linked to multiple murders and shootings in Mississauga, Caledon and Brampton in the last year or so.

Several sweeping police investigations, including those run by Peel Regional Police, Ontario Provincial Police and the FBI in the U.S., tell a complex story fit for the big screen that involves stolen drug shipments leading to several “retaliation” murders (some of which reportedly targeted the wrong people) and now an international manhunt for …