{"id":129264,"date":"2025-08-08T14:30:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T14:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/129264\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T14:30:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T14:30:16","slug":"kitchener-man-charged-in-months-long-drug-trafficking-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/129264\/","title":{"rendered":"Kitchener man charged in months-long drug trafficking investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Kitchener man is facing multiple charges following what <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/kitchener.citynews.ca\/topic\/crime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Waterloo Regional Police<\/a><\/strong> say was a three-month-long drug trafficking investigation. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear when exactly that drug trafficking investigation began, but police say they carried out a search warrant as recently as Wednesday as two residences in Kitchener. <\/p>\n<p>Police have not specified where in Kitchener those search warrants were executed.<\/p>\n<p>Those searches were successful, resulting in the seizure of a firearm, two-stolen motorcycles and roughly $5,000 in Canadian currency. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"657\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Police-Seized-Cash-1024x657.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4077132\"  \/>Photo shared by the Waterloo Regional Police Service of Canadian currency seized in this investigation (@WRPSToday on X)<\/p>\n<p>Also seized were unspecified quantities of drugs, including suspected cocaine, methamphetamine, MDMA and hydromorphone pills. <\/p>\n<p>That 46-year-old from Kitchener has since been arrested, now facing multiple charges including:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Possession for the purpose of trafficking (four counts)<\/li>\n<li>Operation of a conveyance while prohibited<\/li>\n<li>Possession of property obtained by crime (three counts)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Police say that man was held in custody for a bail hearing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Kitchener man is facing multiple charges following what Waterloo Regional Police say was a three-month-long drug trafficking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":129265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2147,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-129264","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114993629040940867","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}