A Laval police officer was suspended on Wednesday after her employer learned that she was the spouse of one of the alleged drug and arms traffickers arrested on Wednesday by investigators from the Montreal City Police Department.
According to our information, when investigators from the SPVM’s Organized Crime Division arrested one of the suspects early in the morning at his home in Laval, the Laval patrol officers assisting them recognized their work colleague, who was also in the residence.
“The police officer was suspended with pay until an administrative investigation was carried out. All his access to the premises of the SPL has been cut off to him, ”indicated to The Press the spokesperson for the Laval police department, Geneviève Major, without giving further details.
According to our information, the policewoman, who would be in her thirties, would have less than five years of seniority.
At no time would she have been targeted in the SPVM investigation and she was not arrested.
It was when she came into work later that day that her superiors told her she was suspended.
25 kg per week
Her spouse, as well as about eight other men and women, were apprehended as part of a major SPVM investigation called Auxo and through which the sleuths dismantled a prolific independent network of drug and firearms traffickers. from street gangs.
The members of the network sourced their supplies in the Toronto area and supplied merchandise to criminal organizations in the south and north suburbs of Montreal.
They could sell up to 25 kilograms of cocaine per week.
During their investigation, the investigators seized for 4 million various drugs including cocaine, crystal meth and fentanyl, a sum of money of 1.3 million dollars and eight firearms, including an assault rifle AR-15 type.
The alleged leader of the network, Emmanuel Roy-Puthyra is actively wanted. The 35-year-old faces charges of gangsterism, drug trafficking and possession of weapons for the purpose of trafficking.
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