THUNDER BAY -- The first day of 2018 wasn’t so great for a pair of suspected drug dealers.
City police, in a release, say officers conducting a RIDE program observed a vehicle traveling northbound on Memorial Avenue at about 3:40 a.m. travelling at a high rate of speed.
The officers followed the vehicle and pulled the driver over on High Street South. The odour of alcohol was detected and the driver subsequently bolted, only to return several minutes later.
Both the driver and his passenger were arrested and taken into custody, but not before police searched the vehicle and discovered a quantity of drugs worth an estimated $69,000 on the street. They also recovered cash.
Police have not said what type of drugs were recovered and have not identified the two male suspects, who were from southern Ontario and Alberta.
They have been charged with possession of a controlled substance and possession of property obtained by crime.
