SMUGGLERS CAUGHT.
♦— —• BIG AMERICAN DRUG RING. (BT CABLE —FBEBS ASSOCIATION—COPTBIQBT.) (ACSTEALIAN AND X.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) OTTAWA, December 30. The first fruits, of four months' cooperation between tbo Canadian and United States authorities were gathered at Montreal to-day, with the arrest of five men, and the seizure of narcotics valued at 10,000 dollars unoovering the operations of the largest-drug-ring in North America. Mr F. W. Cowan, chief of the narcotic branch of the Canadian Department of Health, said the investigators secured the confidence of the ring, representing themselves as United States buyers. The drugs apparently entered tJ»e Dominion by the Atlantic seaboard, rum-runners playing a considerable part. A central plant is believed to exist, but has not yet been .uncovered. The recent seizures at Chicago, Detroit, and Winsor, Ontario, all emanated from Montreal which, Mr Cowan said, had been the base of half the trade for the Continent for many years.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18889, 3 January 1927, Page 9
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