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SaltWire's Atlantic regional weather forecast for October 20, 2023 | SaltWireRCMP in Nova Scotia and other provinces teamed up with officials from Homeland Security in the United States to stop an international drug trafficking operation that was based in Halifax.
Members of the RCMP's federal serious and organized crime unit in Nova Scotia, Quebec and Ontario were involved in the investigation, along with Homeland Security Investigations and other RCMP units. RCMP investigators tracked the operation to Halifax, finding that the drugs were being sent by mail to both countries. A number of them were intercepted by police, and on Aug. 30, RCMP arrested 37-year-old John Nicholas Allen-Simac while executing several search warrants throughout HRM.“I know he was arrested at a home in Halifax, but I don’t know what the other types or properties were,” he said.
Allen-Simec is charged with six counts of exporting a controlled substance from Canada. Five of those involve hydromorphone and one covers amphetamine. He is also facing four counts of trafficking a controlled substance, with three involving hydromorphone and one involving amphetamine. There are also two charges of possession of a controlled substance for the purpose of trafficking and two of possession of a controlled substance for the purpose of exporting.
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