P.A. Police seized 11 kg of cocaine from unoccupied apartment
Prince Albert Police and RCMP released more details into the single largest cocaine seizure in the city’s history at a press conference held this afternoon at city police headquarters.
Inspector Jonathan Bergen, head of Prince Albert Police’s Criminal Investigation Division, said the drugs were found after police received a complaint from an apartment manager in August. The landlord, Bergen said, entered an unoccupied apartment and alerted police after finding evidence of drugs and drug packaging.
Prince Albert’s Integrated Street Enforcement Team (ISET), which is comprised of city police and RCMP officers, executed a search warrant on the apartment and quickly realized they were dealing with high-level drug trafficking, Bergen said.
“As a result of the search, investigators seized 11.25 kilograms of cocaine,” Bergen said. “This cocaine, if sold in its pure version by the gram, would be worth excess of $1 million.”