Winnipeg police to talk cocaine bust, 3D-printed gun arrests

Winnipeg constabulary are group to speak to media Tuesday astir a brace of investigations.

The organized crime division’s Insp. Elton Hall will talk a supplier trafficking investigation from this past spring, arsenic good arsenic Project Gauge — an investigation into firearms trafficking involving 3D-printed guns.

The supplier investigation, constabulary said, progressive nan thief of nan Brandon Police Service, arsenic a Winnipeg-based trafficking web was supplying traffickers successful Brandon arsenic well.

Police said they arrested 2 group May 11 erstwhile they sewage disconnected a level astatine nan Winnipeg Richardson International Airport, and seized 24 kilograms of cocaine — pinch a thoroughfare worth of $2.4 cardinal — from their luggage.

Two women from Winnipeg were charged pinch cocaine possession for nan intent of trafficking.

The 3D weapon case, which began successful November 2023, led to a ambush connected 4 Winnipeg homes and aggregate arrests, aft constabulary opportunity they learned a crime web had approached section metallic fabricators to create components for Glock-style handguns.

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With nan thief of nan RCMP, nan Canada Border Services Agency, Correctional Service Canada and Manitoba Corrections, a full of 7 group were arrested betwixt March and June of this year, and look charges ranging from conspiracy to perpetrate an indictable offence to weapons trafficking to unauthorized firearms possession.

Police besides seized guns, ammunition, a 3D printer and equipment, tools, computers, cellphones and more.

Global Winnipeg will watercourse nan property convention unrecorded connected this page astatine 11 a.m.