The Prince Albert Police Service has broken its record for its largest ever seizure of cocaine. Police Chief Jonathan Bergen says the previous record was 11 kilograms and last Thursday that record was almost tripled with 31.2 kilograms of cocaine seized.

The Prince Albert Crime Reduction Team, with support from RCMP, executed a search warrant on a property in a trailer court north of Prince Albert and along with the cocaine, $55,000 in cash was seized, gun parts and ammunition, and paraphernalia consistent with a large-scale drug trafficking operation. Thirty-year-old Gordon Greer-Vandale of Prince Albert, 27-year-old Spencer Evans, 34-year-old Jim Lakatos of North Battleford and 28-year-old Santana Foulds of Saskatoon are facing drug and weapons-related charges. Thirty-one-year-old Dean Marchand of Saskatoon is also facing charges and there is a warrant for his arrest. Additional charges may be laid as the investigation continues.

Chief Bergen says, “Much of the suffering and pain we see in many communities is tied to addictions, and drug trafficking affects everyone. When you think of what has been prevented with this seizure, I’m just so impressed with the work of our Crime Reduction Team and our partner teams within the Prince Albert Police Service, including the Proactive Policing Unit, Forensic Identification Unit, and our Saskatchewan Trafficking Response Team, who supported this investigation. We recognize that many are suffering from addictions, and taking these drugs off our streets means less access and less harm.”