Windsor police say they have arrested two people and seized more than $400,000 in drugs after a months-long investigation supported by Criminal Intelligence Service Ontario (CISO), a partnership that helps combat organized crime.
The investigation into suspected drug trafficking, dubbed Project Kraken, began in May 2024, the Windsor Police Service said in a Tuesday post on X, formerly Twitter.
It uncovered a trafficking operation running throughout Windsor and Essex County, with links to the Greater Toronto Area, it said.
Police arrested a 26-year-old man on Dec. 21 as he was returning to Windsor from Toronto, they added.
They then got search warrants for his vehicle and two residences connected to the investigation.
Police say a subsequent search of the suspect’s vehicle turned up two kilograms of cocaine and 356 grams of fentanyl.
Police also seized 575 grams of cocaine and more than 250 oxycodone pills, along with 95 rounds of ammunition, at a home in Harrow. Police then visited a second residence and arrested a second person, a 34-year-old man.
The total value of the drugs police seized in the operation was $412,850, police said.
The first suspect has been charged with several counts of possession for the purposes of trafficking — as well as possession of the proceeds of crime and failure to comply with a prohibition order.
The second suspect has been charged with five counts of trafficking cocaine.