{"id":35110,"date":"2014-12-13T04:45:42","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T20:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=35110"},"modified":"2014-12-13T00:00:35","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T16:00:35","slug":"massive-drug-investigation-across-five-provinces-results-in-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/12\/13\/massive-drug-investigation-across-five-provinces-results-in-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive drug investigation across five provinces results in charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11411\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11411\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/illegal-drugs-meth-shabu-cocaine.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11411\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/illegal-drugs-meth-shabu-cocaine.jpg\" alt=\"ShutterStock image\" width=\"1000\" height=\"747\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/illegal-drugs-meth-shabu-cocaine.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/illegal-drugs-meth-shabu-cocaine-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/illegal-drugs-meth-shabu-cocaine-600x448.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11411\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ShutterStock image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WINNIPEG\u2014The Manitoba Integrated Organized Crime Task Force has charged 14 people in a long-term investigation spanning five provinces.<\/p>\n<p>The arrests, made on Wednesday, came after a 15-month investigation by more than 200 police officers in Manitoba, Ontario, Alberta, Saskatchewan and British Columbia.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the operation dubbed Project Distress, officers also raided six residences in Manitoba, including five in Winnipeg.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the items seized include six kilograms of cocaine, eight kilograms of methamphetamine and smaller quantities of other drugs.<\/p>\n<p>Officers also seized 17 long-barrelled guns, three handguns, ammunition and $70,000.<\/p>\n<p>Ten of the individuals charged were from Winnipeg, including Ray Ulasy, a city council candidate in the Transcona ward in the last civic election, who now faces two charges of firearms trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>RCMP officials say the investigation targeted organized crime and drug trafficking and used wiretaps to record more than 80,000 conversations and communications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WINNIPEG\u2014The Manitoba Integrated Organized Crime Task Force has charged 14 people in a long-term investigation spanning five provinces. The arrests, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":11411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}