Drug trafficking-related arrest made at Wunnumin Lake airport

By Matt Prokopchuk, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, TBnewswatch.com WUNNUMIN LAKE — Nishnawbe Aski police say they’ve made another drug trafficking-related arrest at Wunnumin Lake’s airport. In a news release issued Friday afternoon, police said a 32-year-old woman from Wunnumin Lake was charged with possessing cocaine for the purpose of trafficking two days prior. Police said, on July 9, they received a call for service at the airport in the remote community, which is located about 500 kilometres north of Thunder Bay. Officers were told a suspect entered the First Nation with a quantity of suspected crack cocaine, NAPS said, adding that the drugs were seized and the accused was arrested “without incident.” A similar situation unfolded in June, when a 22-year-old was arrested at the Wunnumin Lake airport and charged…

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