NLC, Canada Post, RNC team up for latest contraband cannabis bust
The Newfoundland and Labrador Liquor Corporation's drug unit got a little help from Canada Post and the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary, resulting in the arrest Tuesday of two men.
The three units searched a business in St. John's, seizing a number of cannabis and cannabis-related products, plus a large quantity of cash.
The items seized in the bust included:
5.6 kilograms of dried flower.
3.2 kilograms of concentrates.
22 vape pens.
179 one-gram packages of shatter.
255 one-gram concentrated oil syringes.
40 30-millilitre bottles of cannabidiol oil.
105 grams of cannabis edibles.
16, 30-millilitre bottles of THC tincture.
15 cannabis seeds.
755 grams of cannabis topicals.
$24,974.15 in cash.
"To further its mandate of providing a safe and secure supply of non-medical cannabis, NLC will continue to work with its partners in law enforcement to disrupt the illicit market," the NLC said in a news release on Thursday.
The two men arrested were released, pending an ongoing investigation, the NLC said.
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