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A traffic stop on the Yellowhead Highway led to the discovery of more than 17 kilograms of drugs inside a vehicle.
According to the North Battleford RCMP, officers responded Monday at about 11:30 a.m., to a call from a member of the public about an SUV driving erratically.
Police found the vehicle and pulled it over just west of Battleford on Highway 16.
The man driving the SUV was arrested without incident. Officers searched the vehicle and found about 15kg of suspected methamphetamine, about one kilo of suspected cocaine, about a kilo of an unidentified substance that has been sent away for further analysis, an amount of suspected fentanyl, and some Canadian money.
The Mounties say the meth could have been turned into about 150,000 individual doses and the cocaine could have been broken down into roughly 1,000 individual doses.
“Police officers see first-hand the impacts of drug use,” Insp. Tom Beck, the officer in charge of the North Battleford detachment, said in a media release. “We also know drugs are often laced with other harmful substances that can result in tragedy.
“One of the things we can do to prevent these tragedies and other ripple effects from occurring is to stem the flow of these substances before they trickle into our Saskatchewan communities and beyond. The seizure of this quantity of methamphetamine will certainly have a significant, resounding impact.”
A 36-year-old man from the Penhold, Alta., area was charged with a variety of offences. He appeared in North Battleford Provincial Court on Wednesday.
