Edmonton man charged after drug bust

By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman - Lethbridge Herald on March 25, 2023.

LETHBRIDGE HERALDapulido@lethbridgeherald.com

The Lethbridge Police Service seized nearly $150,000 worth of drugs and charged a 19-year-old Edmonton man with trafficking offences Thursday.
A short-term investigation that began earlier this month by the Crime Suppression Team, led police to the arrest of 19-year-old Dehandre Mabior Sayed of Edmonton.
On Thursday he was arrested without incident and a following search incidental to his arrest as well as the execution of a search warrant at a northside residence, police seized approximately 625 grams of fentanyl worth $112,000, nearly 400 grams of cocaine worth $37,000, narcotic medications, more than $3,100 cash proceeds of crime and a vehicle. 
Based on the activity observed during the investigation, it is believed the male was in the city to supply drugs to local dealers according to a LPS press release.
Sayed is currently in custody awaiting a Judicial Interim Release hearing.
In a statement to the Herald, LPS said they work hard to target dealers, disrupt the supply of drugs and remove these deadly substances from the street.
 “Over the past six months there have been a number of record seizures in the city and we will continue to pursue the suppliers who bring drugs into our community and the dealers who prey on our vulnerable citizens,” read the statement.
Some of the seizures over the past six months include:
•In November about $140,000 worth of drugs were seized following a search of a home and vehicle.
• $51,000 worth of drugs in early December
• Just before Christmas the Downtown Policing Unit seized a record amount of fentanyl in the downtown core – more than 4,800 individual doses
• In January LPS and ALERT seized more than $1 million in drugs and proceeds of crime in one of the city’s largest busts. Record amounts of fentanyl, methamphetamine and cocaine were diverted from the street in that case, preventing them from reaching vulnerable people.
• $20,000 worth in February and a number of “smaller” busts (comparatively) as well

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