It was business interrupted for a 63-year-old Salmon Arm woman who was arrested Monday for trafficking cocaine.
Members of the Salmon Arm RCMP detachment’s drug section conducted a search at an apartment building near Fourth Street SE.
At that time, the woman was arrested inside her vehicle, which was parked in the lot of the apartment complex.
Subsequently, RCMP conducted a search of the woman’s residence which produced a substantial amount of crack cocaine, weighing scales and Canadian currency.
“During the search warrant, police were inundated with people attempting to contact the female in an attempt to purchase cocaine,” says Staff Sgt. Kevin Keane of the Salmon Arm RCMP.
“Police obliged by meeting with these people and educating them on the perils of drug use.”
Keane says one person complained to the plain-clothed officer that just last week she was tricked into meeting with police to buy crack cocaine.
“The officer then smiled and identified himself,” said Keane.
The suspected cocaine trafficker is not being named until formal charges are approved by Crown counsel.
In other drug-related news, two men are in custody and 400 pot plants have been seized after police raided two grow-ops on one property Feb. 8.
Keane reports in a press release that the police drug section executed a search warrant on a residence on Vella Road in Tappen.
“Two marijuana grow operations were discovered in two buildings on the property. Over 400 marijuana plants were found and seized,” Keane states. Again, names of the suspects are being withheld until formal charges are laid.
“If anyone has any information on this file or any other criminal activity in the Salmon Arm area, they are asked to call the local detachment at 250-832-6044 or Crimestoppers,” Keane writes.
