A 10-month investigation led by ALERT Edmonton has resulted in one of the biggest seizures in the agency’s 20-year history.<\/p>\n
Over $7-million worth of drugs, $1-million in cash and 17 firearms were seized following a series of search warrants that took place in Edmonton and Calgary, said ALERT in a Thursday media release.<\/p>\n
The multi-million-dollar seizure came as part of a lengthy, province-wide drug trafficking investigation led by ALERT Edmonton’s organized crime team, along with Edmonton Police Service, Calgary Police Service and Alberta RCMP<\/a>.<\/p>\n Throughout the investigation, homes were searched in Edmonton, Calgary, St. Albert and Sturgeon County. Six homes were most recently searched on July 16.<\/p>\n ALERT targeted a province-wide drug trafficking network that relied on vehicles outfitted with hidden compartments to move drugs and cash mainly between Edmonton and Calgary.<\/p>\n In total, ALERT seized just over 66 kilograms of cocaine, with an estimated street value of $6.65-million and seized $1,156,863 in cash, which is the largest cash seizure ever recorded in ALERT’s history.<\/p>\n Also seized were 1.5 kilograms of fentanyl, 3,494 suspected fentanyl pills, 1.5 kilograms of methamphetamine, 2.3 kilograms of psilocybin mushrooms, eight vehicles and 17 firearms.<\/p>\n ALERT said the cash and vehicles were seized as offence-related property and the agency will be consulting with the province’s civil forfeiture office.<\/p>\n Among the 17 firearms, six handguns and 11 rifles were seized, and they will be submitted to the province’s firearms solutions lab for analysis and ballistics testing to determine if they were used in any other crimes.<\/p>\n ALERT said several suspects were arrested, but no charges have been laid as of yet. The investigation, which dates back to November 2025, is still ongoing as investigators prepare reports and disclosure for Crown Counsel.<\/p>\n \u2013 More to come<\/p>\n Bookmark our website and support our journalism:\u00a0Don’t\u00a0miss the news you need to know \u2014 add\u00a0EdmontonJournal.com<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0EdmontonSun.com<\/a>\u00a0to your bookmarks and\u00a0sign up for our newsletters here.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n You can also support our journalism by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribers gain unlimited access to The Edmonton Journal, Edmonton Sun, National Post and 13 other Canadian news sites. Support us by subscribing today: The Edmonton Journal<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<\/a>The Edmonton Sun<\/a>.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 10-month investigation led by ALERT Edmonton has resulted in one of the biggest seizures in the agency’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[341,52,1790,1273],"class_list":["post-158642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-calgary-police-service","tag-edmonton","tag-edmonton-police-service","tag-firearms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}