What an NCAA rule change might mean for junior hockey in Sask.
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The Saskatchewan RCMP seized 100,000 unstamped cigarettes and a variety of drugs earlier this month near Rosthern.
In a media release Tuesday, the Mounties said the incident began at around 9 a.m. on Feb. 3, when officers from the Wakaw detachment were searching for a vehicle involved in an impaired driving and Tobacco Tax Act investigation.
Later that day, a Saskatchewan Highway Patrol officer stopped the vehicle on Highway 11 near Hague, but the vehicle took off.
As Wakaw RCMP patrolled the area, a farmer called the Mounties about items being thrown into a field on Highway 312 east of Rosthern. The vehicle involved matched the suspect vehicle’s description.
In the field, the Mounties found a duffel bag full of suspected narcotics and sealed cardboard boxes full of unstamped cigarettes. The officers also saw the suspect vehicle parked nearby and the driver was arrested without incident.
The officers searched the vehicle and the field and found 100,000 unstamped cigarettes, more than two kilograms of marijuana, 386 grams of cocaine and 124 grams of hashish.
A 29-year-old man from Prince Albert was charged with a variety of offences, including dangerous operation of a motor vehicle, flight from police, possession of unstamped tobacco, and possession for the purpose of trafficking.