This is how RCMP duped drug traffickers with a fake Toronto-area warehouse
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The RCMP set up an elaborate sting involving a fake warehouse in Mississauga to dupe a handful of now-convicted drug traffickers — right under the noses of several tenants in the building.
The RCMP set up an elaborate sting involving a fake warehouse in Mississauga to dupe a handful of now-convicted drug traffickers — right under the noses of several tenants in the building.
People who spoke to CTV News Toronto at the site were agog there had been fake transactions involving real drugs in a scheme to help the Mounties get their men.
“You really don’t know who’s right next to us,” said Enara Dossa, who works in a warehouse at the building on Britannia Road. “I wouldn’t have guessed, no.”
A sentencing decision by Justice Suhail Akhtar of the Ontario Superior Court outlines how officers involved in Project Obermuder posed as potential drug dealers inside a fake warehouse “to serve as a ‘base’ for undercover officers in their fictitious roles.”
The investigation began in 2016 when officers began to look into a delivery driver for a furniture company. In a meeting, he said he had access to a supply of cocaine through a contact in Colombia, and eventually pitched shipping methamphetamine to Australia, where it could be sold for almost ten times the price.
By July 2018, an undercover officer met at a Pickering restaurant with three people including Lamar Burke and a man named “Brooklyn” to plan the exportation. Burke arrived at the fake warehouse to present the police with 4 kg of methamphetamine.
