On July 29, 2024 at roughly 4:00 pm, Indian Head RCMP obtained a request to help the Saskatchewan Freeway Patrol with a visitors cease.
Officers responded to a Saskatchewan Freeway Patrol tractor and trailer unit that had stopped on Freeway #1, roughly 5 kilometers east of Indian Head. An grownup man, who was touring from British Columbia to Ontario, was arrested on the scene. Because of the investigation, officers situated and seized 4 pallets of dried hashish. The hashish weighed about 1,184 lbs.
“That's a major quantity of hashish,” says A/Commr. Rhonda Blackmore, commander of the Saskatchewan RCMP. “We wish to remind the general public that though hashish is authorized to make use of, there are nonetheless parameters across the substance, together with a public possession restrict. On this case, unlawful hashish was transported throughout the nation to be offered by an unlicensed vendor. This violates product security and high quality management necessities, endangering the well being and well-being of the general public, along with being unlawful.”
40-year-old Inderjit Singh of Hamilton, Ontario is charged with:
- an account, possession for the aim of distribution, Part 9 (2), Hashish Act; and
- one rely, possession of unprinted hashish product, Part 158.11(1), Excise Act.
“Because of the diligent enforcement of the Saskatchewan Freeway Patrol, we had been in a position to forestall organized crime from making the most of criminality,” stated Minister of Corrections, Policing and Public Security Paul Merriman. “That is one other instance of the work our officers do to make sure public security and our necessary partnership with the RCMP.”
Inderjit Singh is scheduled to look in Indian Head Provincial Court docket on October 15, 2024.
Saskatchewan Freeway Patrol officers with the Provincial Protecting Companies Department assisted on this investigation.
