Ontario Police Seize $2.3M Worth of Fentanyl in Interprovincial Trafficking Bust

An Ontario Provincial Police-led investigation into a drug trafficking network operating between Ontario and Alberta has resulted in the seizure of 180,000 potentially lethal doses of fentanyl valued at more than $2.3 million. Ontario Provincial Police handout photo

Roughly 180,000 potentially lethal doses of fentanyl valued at more than $2.3 million have been confiscated as part of an investigation into a drug trafficking network operating between Ontario and Alberta, police say.

The probe, better known as Project OLLIE, began last May and was spearheaded by the Border Drug Interdiction Task Force of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) in the Greater Toronto Area, according to a recent police press release.