An out-of-town drug trafficking team has been disrupted in Prince George, thanks to help the RCMP received from the public.
Mounties began receiving several calls letting them know about open offers of drugs being made by a group of men. Police said these calls provided them with information allowing them to close in with a targeted investigation.
After gathering facts and making observations, police made their move on Friday at about 10 a.m., using members of the Prince George detachment and North District RCMP's Emergency Response Team. They closed in together on a residence near 1st Avenue and Foothills Boulevard.
"A number of adult males were located and arrested for trafficking in a controlled substance," said RCMP spokesman Cpl. Craig Douglass. "All have recently come to Prince George from the Lower Mainland and are believed to be involved in gang activity, and as such, are considered dangerous."
Public safety was a foremost motivator for the police in this operation, said Douglass, and called this a "sensitive investigation" due to the broad range of factors in this unique set of arrests.
"These individuals have been released on conditions including that they not be in Prince George," said Douglass.
If you have any information about these criminal offences that might help investigators piece more of these allegations together, please contact the Prince George RCMP at (250)561-3300 or anonymously contact Crime Stoppers at 1(800)222-8477, online at www.pgcrimestoppers.bc.ca (English only), or Text-A-Tip to CRIMES (274637) using keyword "pgtips".
