RCMP deny MPs claim of crack houses across Newfoundland [Video]

A Conservative MP from Newfoundland and Labrador says some small towns in his rural riding are overrun with crime, but police say they haven’t received reports to that effect.

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Clifford Small told the House of Commons last month there are towns with fewer than 1,000 residents in his riding of Coast of Bays—Central—Notre Dame where “five crack houses” were operating and teenage girls were being forced into sex work.

Cpl. Jolene Garland of the Newfoundland and Labrador RCMP says the force has not received reports of such activity from community members in the area.

Small also said a police cruiser was spray-painted in Lewisporte, N.L., which is serviced by the RCMP, but Garland says none of the force’s vehicles in the town were vandalized.

Small posted a video of his Sept. 26 remarks to the …