Winnipeg police say they found 1.2 kg of cocaine and 11 g of crack worth about $33,100, along with $1,740 in cash, plus drug paraphernalia and packaging materials.
The Justice Department on Friday announced charges against more than two dozen defendants, including three sons of the notorious drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, in a sprawling fentanyl-trafficking investigation.
Routed through new hubs and expanded criminal networks, international cocaine trafficking has made a dramatic surge after an initial slowdown caused by the emergence of Covid-19, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime said in a report.
Jose Gonzalez Valencia, alias "El Chepa," the brother-in-law of Jalisco cartel boss Nemesio "El Mencho" Oseguera Cervantes, has pleaded guilty to cocaine trafficking charges in U.S. federal court.