The RCMP’s federal serious and organized crime squad and local police seized a sizeable quantity of drugs from two homes and two vehicles in Saskatoon this month.
According to a Saskatchewan RCMP news release, police executed the search warrants in the area of Shillington Crescent and the Eastview neighbourhood in Saskatoon on Aug. 1.
The warrants were the product of an investigation involving several federal policing teams, including serious and organized crime squad, the pacific region federal policing team, and assistance from the Saskatoon integrated intelligence unit, the RCMP said.
“We know that the reach of illicit drugs impacts all corners of Canada and bring with it a host of other criminal activities and social issues to our communities,” Insp. Richard Pickering of the RCMP’s northwest region federal police said in a news release Tuesday.
“This is just one example of how multiple agencies can come together to jointly investigate …