Edmonton man charged after drug bust
By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman - Lethbridge Herald on March 25, 2023.
Lethbridge Police Service have seized nearly $150,000 worth of drugs and charged a 19-year-old Edmonton man with trafficking offences. LPS photoLETHBRIDGE HERALDapulido@lethbridgeherald.com
The Lethbridge Police Service seized nearly $150,000 worth of drugs and charged a 19-year-old Edmonton man with trafficking offences Thursday.
A short-term investigation that began earlier this month by the Crime Suppression Team, led police to the arrest of 19-year-old Dehandre Mabior Sayed of Edmonton.
On Thursday he was arrested without incident and a following search incidental to his arrest as well as the execution of a search warrant at a northside residence, police seized approximately 625 grams of fentanyl worth $112,000, nearly 400 grams of cocaine worth $37,000, narcotic medications, more than $3,100 cash proceeds of crime and a vehicle.Â
Based on the activity observed during the investigation, it is believed the male was in the city to supply drugs to local dealers according to a LPS press release.
Sayed is currently in custody awaiting a Judicial Interim Release hearing.
In a statement to the Herald, LPS said they work hard to target dealers, disrupt the supply of drugs and remove these deadly substances from the street.
 “Over the past six months there have been a number of record seizures in the city and we will continue to pursue the suppliers who bring drugs into our community and the dealers who prey on our vulnerable citizens,” read the statement.
Some of the seizures over the past six months include:
•In November about $140,000 worth of drugs were seized following a search of a home and vehicle.
• $51,000 worth of drugs in early December
• Just before Christmas the Downtown Policing Unit seized a record amount of fentanyl in the downtown core – more than 4,800 individual doses
• In January LPS and ALERT seized more than $1 million in drugs and proceeds of crime in one of the city’s largest busts. Record amounts of fentanyl, methamphetamine and cocaine were diverted from the street in that case, preventing them from reaching vulnerable people.
• $20,000 worth in February and a number of “smaller” busts (comparatively) as well
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Can never understand why they post the amount worth of the drug busts. It only signals how much these dealers can make if they do not get caught. And a lot do not. I asked this to a police chief (Medicine Hat) one time during a formal military diner and he agreed he did not like it but said the politicians like to publish this crap to show results.