Police seize 15 kg of cocaine in New Brunswick tied to Quebec Hells Angels

CBC is reporting that "A remote garage east of Edmundston and a beige duplex in the northwestern New Brunswick city were among the sites police raided Wednesday as part of an interprovincial investigation targeting a suspected cocaine-trafficking network allegedly linked to the Hells Angels, according to Quebec provincial police."

"According to the Sûreté du Québec, the unnamed targeted organization is active in cocaine distribution and territory management to the benefit of Hells Angels biker gang chapters in Quebec. The series of raids follows an operation that took place last week in New Brunswick and Laval, the police said in a news release Thursday."

"Among the items seized between the two operations were 15 kilograms of cocaine, jackets with biker gang markings, guns and other weapons, bulletproof vests, more than $560,000 in cash and money-counting machines."

"In New Brunswick, police searched two properties in the Madawaska region: a two-door garage on Chemin Rivière Quisibis in Rivière-Verte, with the help of a canine unit, and a duplex at 22 Lord Ave., in the Saint-Basile area of Edmundston."

"About 16 kilometres west is the two-storey duplex police searched on a cul-de-sac in Edmundston, which is about 19 kilometres southwest of the Quebec border and adjacent to the U.S. border, with the Madawaska-Edmundston International Bridge connecting the city directly to Madawaska, Maine."

Gabe Wortman was a police agent for the New Brunswick RCMP. It is believed he was involved with a cross border gun smuggling ring from Maine to New Brunswick tied to the HAs.

In addition to cocaine, cash, guns and cell phones police seized  a Nomads NB HA prospect jacket, a Street Soldiers North Shore member jacket, a TR (Trois Rivières?) HA prospect jacket and aRed Devils Maritimes member jacket.