Last Saturday, at about two in the morning, Swift Current Rural RCMP conducted a traffic stop on an SUV traveling east on Highway 1 near Waldeck.

Police say that, during a search of the vehicle officers seized two vacuum-sealed bags of methamphetamine weighing about 8 kilograms, five vacuum-sealed bags of fentanyl weighing about 5.5 kilograms, and $1,140 in cash. The amount of methamphetamine seized is equivalent to about 76,160 individual doses.

The driver, and lone occupant of the vehicle, was arrested. 30-year-old Geoffrey John Vincent, of St. Andrews, Manitoba, is charged with Possession for the Purpose of Trafficking and Possession of Currency Obtained by Crime.