KAWARTHA LAKES- “IÂ spoke to the officer and the amount of traffic going through this residence was significant.” Police Chief John Hagarty told the Police Service Board on Monday.
The drug stats released for March showed arrests were way up. Â 15 in March 2018 as opposed to 3 in February and 2 in January.
Officers initiated a drug operation and were surprised by the amount of product going through this one unit. “Officers ran a mini drug project in March that resulted in a significant amount of charges and the drug of choice was cocaine, and we were able to shut down a trafficking operation as a result of that.” Hagarty said.
Cocaine, heroin and fentanyl are the drugs of choice in Lindsay according to Hagarty.
“They are taking drugs with fentanyl not by surprise, they’re taking drugs with fentanyl because they know fentanyl is in it.” Hagarty explained. Â “The challenge of course is their ability to tolerate it and the percentage of it that might be in the drug.” The Chief says there was another drug overdose last week from know drug user who was only about 21 years old and heavily involved in the drug trade. According to the Chief the person had been revived a few times previously.
“We’re not immune and so they shut that down and now that’s ended, but it will be somewhere else because the demand is there.”
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