Four men were arrested in Iqaluit on charges of conspiracy to import cocaine from Columbia. Police seized 107 grams of cocaine in the community and also charged one of the men with possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking.
Police said a group of Iqaluit men was buying coke in Columbia, where it costs as little as $10 a gram. One of the men acted as a mule to bring the coke into Iqaluit, where it is sold for $200/gram.
“They travelled through the normal passenger airline routes and couriered the narcotics into Iqaluit,” said the police.
Those arrested were: Adam Pitts, 24, Jay Wisintainer, 29, Grant Liddiard, 47, and Shahin Paydar, 30.
-Source: Nunatsiaq News
