Two people from The Pas, two people from Easterville, one person from Headingley and an inmate at the Headingley Correctional Centre have been charged with cocaine-trafficking offences as the result of a months-long investigation by Manitoba RCMP.
The RCMP Federal Serious and Organized Crime and Integrated Gang Intelligence Units began an investigation known as Project Derelict in July of this year into an alleged Manitoba Warriors street gang drug trafficking network being operated from the rural municipality of Headingley and Winnipeg. Police say the network was supplying northern communities, including The Pas, Easterville and Fairford, with cocaine.
An Oct. 5 Highway 6 traffic stop found 84 grams of cocaine in a vehicle en route to Easterville. A search warrant was then executed at a residence in Headingley where RCMP found a cocaine cutting station and press along with packaging materials and a 9mm carbine rifle and ammunition.
Bradley Virgil Sinclair, 30, an inmate at the Headingley Correctional Centre as well as Norman William Sinclair, 35, of Headingley and Warren George, 34, of Easterville are all charged with conspiracy to traffic cocaine and conspiracy to possess the proceeds of crime. Norman Sinclair is also charged with trafficking cocaine, unauthorized possession of a firearm, unsafe storage of a firearm and possession of weapons/ammunition contrary to a court order. George is also charged with possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking. He remains in custody, as does Bradley Sinclair. Norman Sinclair has been released. RCMP says Bradley Sinclair and George are full-patch members of the Manitoba Warriors street gang, while Norman Sinclair is a Manitoba Warriors associate.
Veronica Walker, 21, of Easterville, is charged with possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking, as are 20-year-old Bethany Cook and 40-year-old Mona Copapay, both from The Pas. They have all been released.
RCMP continue to investigate.
