Since the start of the year, Alberta RCMP’s Roving Traffic Unit has issued 177 fines and seized more than $498,000 in contraband, including cannabis, unstamped cigarettes and cash.
In January, another five-day blitz in the Jasper area resulted in the confiscation of almost one kilogram of cannabis, 227 grams of psilocybin, 26 tablets of OxyContin, 85 tablets of Percocet, and 1.5 cartons of black stock cigarettes.
In May, a stop in Lake Louise led to one of the unit’s most significant busts of the year. After seizing illegal tobacco from a vehicle with two occupants, police searched the rest of the vehicle and recovered two kilograms of suspected crystal methamphetamine and a kilogram of cocaine.
The stop was part of a larger enforcement initiative, running from May 8 to 13, and resulted in recovering $329,711 related to fines and contraband.
In April, Canmore was
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