trafficking
Crown drops charges against Kelowna man accused of drug trafficking in Edmonton
KELOWNA – Charges against a Kelowna man who was arrested in Alberta last year after…
Kelowna man arrested in Edmonton drug bust
KELOWNA – A Kelowna man has been arrested in Alberta after a search warrant led…
Vernon man found guilty of role in cross-border drug smuggling operation
VERNON – A Vernon man has been found guilty for his part in a drug…
Vernon RCMP bust a sixth dial-a-dope drug trafficker
VERNON – Vernon RCMP are cracking down on street level drug traffickers in the community.…
Okanagan woman wanted on drug trafficking charges winds up in Nanaimo court
VERNON – Police have finally located an Okanagan woman who’s been under the radar for…
Convicted Vernon drug smuggler still trying to smuggle drugs in prison: Warden
VERNON - A Vernon man currently serving time for running a massive drug trafficking operation has been denied a request to be moved into minimum security. Brock Palfrey was sentenced to almost 17 years in prison for trafficking cocaine and ecstasy. He and two co-conspirators, also from the Vernon area, were arrested with $200 million...
Okanagan men accused of trafficking marijuana hidden inside logs ordered extradited to the U.S.
NORTH OKANAGAN - A group of eight men accused in a cross-border drug smuggling operation in which marijuana was trucked to California in hollowed out logs have been ordered extradited to the U.S. A Supreme Court Judge has ordered Shane Donald Fraser, Todd Ian Ferguson, Daniel James Joinson, Darrell Romano, Robert Romano, Ivan Djuracic, Aaron...
Vernon RCMP disrupt ‘potentially dangerous’ drug trafficking operation
VERNON - Mounties have busted a Vernon drug ring with ties to the Lower Mainland. RCMP spokesperson Gord Molendyk said two men, Andres Naranjo, 21, and Daniel Penton, 21, both of the Lower Mainland but residing in Vernon, were arrested Dec. 19. Naranjo is facing charges of trafficking cocaine and possession of cocaine and heroin...
Vernon police arrest two alleged drug traffickers
VERNON - A targeted RCMP drug trafficking investigation within the city of Vernon resulted in two arrests Friday. The first man, a 26-year-old White Rock resident, was arrested in his vehicle Oct. 3. In a media release, Vernon RCMP spokesperson Gord Molendyk says the man was in possession of cocaine and heroin packaged for sale....
Man arrested in Osoyoos faces more firearms trafficking charges
OSOYOOS - An additional 37 firearms-related charges have been laid on a Langley man arrested at the Nk’Mip campground in Osoyoos last month in addition to the nine charges he originally faced. Bradley Michael Friesen, 37, was arrested on July 17 at the campground in Osoyoos where officers found and seized numerous firearms and prohibited...
Mexican drug smuggler put behind Canadian bars
PENTICTON - A Mexican drug smuggler caught at the Osoyoos border was sentenced Monday to six years in jail. Andy J. Garcia Macias, born in 1995, was arrested in January for smuggling cocaine across the U.S. border into Canada. He had travelled from Mexico, crossing the border on foot into the U.S., making his way...
Man found guilty for drug trafficking wants evidence excluded
PENTICTON - Defense counsel made an application for exclusion of evidence used in the trial of a Surrey man found guilty earlier this month of cocaine possession with intent to sell. Graham V. Jordan was found guilty during a trial in Penticton Supreme Court, May 5 and 6 by Justice Selwyn Romilly. Jordan was arrested...
Man caught near Osoyoos with eight bricks of cocaine
OSOYOOS - A 19-year-old Mexican National arrested at the border with a backpack full of cocaine faces sentencing later this month. RCMP and the United States Border Patrol combined efforts, arresting two men near the Boot Lake area east of Oroville/Osoyoos Lake January 3, 2014. Andy Garcia-Macias was arrested soon after he and the other...