A 39-year-old Manitoba man and half a dozen others were arrested this summer and fall in connection with drug trafficking and money laundering schemes that involved cryptocurrency — along with smuggling cannabis concentrate in and out of the country using barrels of honey and maple syrup, police say.
James Robert McGirr, from the rural municipality of Springfield — just east of Winnipeg — faces charges linked to his alleged role in several “high-level drug trafficking rings,” said RCMP intelligence officer Insp. Joe Telus.
The charges follow a pair of related RCMP investigations, beginning with one dubbed Project Divergent, which launched in 2018 and led to the arrest of at least 20 people in early 2022.
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