Nunavik police report drug busts in Inukjuak, Kuujjuaq
Searches took place April 10 and May 2
Nunavik police confiscated a variety of drugs, money, and alcohol during a search of a home in Inukjuak last month. (Photo courtesy of Nunavik Police Service)
The Nunavik Police Service announced Tuesday that it conducted two major drug busts in the last month in Inukjuak and Kuujjuaq.
Police in Inukjuak arrested 10 people on April 10 following searches of several homes in the community.
Police seized more than 1.5 kilograms of cannabis resin, more than 500 grams of cannabis in bulk, and approximately five grams of various hard drugs, including cocaine, crack, and GHB, or gamma-hydroxybutyrate, sometimes referred to as a date-rape drug.
They also seized $10,000 in cash, various equipment used for drug trafficking, and alcohol.
The street value of these drugs is believed to be around $83,000, police say.
Police also arrested two women May 2 following another drug bust in Kuujjuaq.
A team of officers from the Quebec’s police service and Nunavik Police Service searched a home in the community.
Officers seized 32.6 grams of cocaine, according to Nunavik police Capt. Patrice Abel.
Police identified a 33-year-old woman as one of the two people arrested
Charges in all of these cases are pending a decision from a Quebec prosecutor.
So far this year, Nunavik police and their provincial counterparts have announced eight drug and alcohol smuggling busts in the region.
Cocaine off the streets and out of the hands of those idiots who worry us and keep us up all night. Good job, NPS.
Date rape drug? Cmon. Sujualuuvisii?
I think it’s time to kick them all out of town!
WAIT TILL FENTANYL START ARRIVING , PEOPLE WILL START DROPPING LIKE FLIES !!1
Now that’s a picture of criminal activity that controls life to so many people in the communities. What about considering how legal activity controls life also. Just one example would be kuujjuaq coop store. See a Saturday morning and the doors are locked at that store, no workers, all asleep, lazy to work, hung over, feeling like crap from drugs and alcohol use the nights before. But at 1 o’clock it all kicks in , and the store doors are opened, controlled solely by the beer and wine sales that start only at 1oclock, to give so many people time to get stocked up once again to get drunk and many continue into a weekend of zombies, some get locked away in a jail room, while someone else suffers out medical care due to behavioural activities of the one in the cell. And all the while the gas station at the coop store remains closed. What’s controlling who, where how and why ?
They should get rid of that restriction of control sales like the 1 to 5 on Saturday. Open up the beer sales all day and all night, and watch what happens. It’ll only take a few weeks and all the lunatics will be laid out in their reward in the graveyard from alcohol and then the rest of the civilization will be free from having to endure lunatics drinking and driving and causing problems, hospitals and courts will laid off staff not needed due to less lunatics.
I agree ,go full speed, everthing is happening in slow motion.
Let it be like a civilized country. I’m willing to bet that there’s no other place in Canada that’s so affected by alcohol and drugs as we see in the death rate of Nunavik. Funeral after funeral. I hope that when the municipalities set down for their monthly meeting that these aspects of the reality are acknowledged. But , I’m concerned that the insight into these perspectives are ignored. When you have problems , it’s really bad if you don’t acknowledge that you have a problems. Exactly, I think, of the experience of Nunavik. It should be against the law for leaders to mismanage their role.
KI without beer sales and gas station.
If you happen to go shopping in kuujjuaq, like on a Saturday, you’ll find one particular store ran by kids. Kids on the cash registers. They look under age , not sure if they are, but they are young and inexperienced. Not a adult in sight. No adult workers. Adults are consumed into drugs and alcohol. See how drugs and alcohol are impacting the community. Kids are running kuujjuaq.
That reminds me the coop store here, call venture,in iqaluit nunavut.where I work last summer, they was a little 14 years old kid,boy, working there with us, sometime a bit annoying too, but so young.
There’s so many locked up in st Jerome as of now. Would be nice to have the numbers, just to show.