Yesterday morning over $4 million dollars of drugs, including 70,000 Ecstasy tablets, 205kg of cocaine, 7kg of ketamine, as well as a quanitity of marijuana and a $12,000 in cash was seized in a drug bust in peel region. This was part of a massive undercover operation called "Vanquish" that has taken all those drugs off of the streets. Arrests happened over an eight month period. In all, ten people face a total of 39 charges including conspiracy and trafficking. Peel cops worked along side with officers from several different jurisdictions to make these arrests. The accused were from many areas such as Mississauga and Brampton, however most of them lived in Toronto. The arrests did not only occur at one large time but officers arrested people in hand to hand deals. This was an extremely undercover operation. Cops believe they have made a large impact on the drug lords because of this bust.
I believe that this drug bust is very positive for the city of Toronto. It is clearly one of the more major busts and should impact the amount of drug trafficking that happens in Toronto. It is very obvious though that many drug transactions still happen regardless of the countless effort from our police forces. However, I believe that slowly, one by one we may be able to eradicate most of the drugs in our city.
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