Red Deer Man Arrested for Drug Trafficking, Weapons

0:00It's April 8th. Welcome to Canada News Today, powered by AI, I'm Cory with the Story. A 45-year-old man from Red Deer is behind bars facing multiple drug trafficking and weapons charges after a solid police take down. Red Deer RCMP kicked off a month-long probe back in March, following a tip about local drug dealing, leading straight to a search warrant on a North. Side home, March 19th. Police busts hit hard in communities like this, where fentanyl and meth fuel overdoses and violence and contraband-six just add to the underground, mess praying on folks. Officers hauled in fentanyl, methamphetamine, illegal smokes, two firearms, ammo, 4,000 Canadian dollars in cash, plus other trafficking gear, during that raid. Both the man and a 63-year-old woman got arrested on site with charges still pending against her as the case moves forward.