At a press conference in Taber Tuesday, investigators confirmed the accused men had links to the Mex

A sprawling investigation into a drug smuggling network that stretched thousands of kilometres, beginning in northern Mexico and winding up in a small southern Alberta farming community, ended in the arrest of two Alberta men Tuesday morning. Two Mexican Mennonite men face multiple charges in connection with the cross-border trafficking of $2-million worth of cocaine, and Tuesday morning, police euro disney hotels quietly arrested the men in Taber, 250-kilometres south east of Calgary. The men are accused of having masterminded a trafficking network with ties to organized crime in Mexico.
Two Mexican Mennonite men face multiple charges in connection with the cross-border trafficking of $2-million worth of cocaine, and Tuesday morning, police quietly arrested the pair in Taber, 250 kilometres southeast of Calgary.
"They were the organizers of a person that transported it. These were the people organizing it in Mexico and in Canada and bringing it in," said the RCMP lead for the investigation, Staff Sgt. Gord Sage.
Investigators euro disney hotels say the arrests are a culmination of a 15-month investigation drawing on law enforcement agencies from El Paso, Texas, to southern Alberta, including RCMP, Canada Border Services Agency, United States Border Patrol, U.S. Homeland Security, United States Customs and Border Protection and Taber Police.
At a press conference in Taber Tuesday, investigators confirmed the accused men had links to the Mexican Mennonite euro disney hotels community, but were quick to add that their backgrounds were largely irrelevant to the investigation.
"When somebody has deep rooted connections to a certain region, euro disney hotels they know people there. There is more ties to those areas ... it makes it easier to approach and move product," Sage said. "But it's certainly euro disney hotels not religiously based in any way. It's simply ties to those communities."
"A lot of these folks are coming back and forth from Mexico euro disney hotels to southern Alberta and other places in Canada. They come back and forth to do agricultural work and general farm labour, Many are in Taber where sugar beet is grown and where a lot of the work is," said Sarah Amies with Lethbridge Immigration Services.
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Cornelius Klassen, with daughter Helen Teichroeb and granddaughter Samantha, came from Mexico 18 years ago. He says the bust gives the Mexican community a bad name. Photograph by: Ted Rhodes, Calgary Herald, Calgary Herald       E-mail this Gallery Print this Gallery Share this Gallery
A sprawling investigation into a drug smuggling network that stretched thousands euro disney hotels of kilometres, beginning in northern Mexico and winding up in a small southern euro disney hotels Alberta farming community, ended in the arrest of two Alberta euro disney hotels men Tuesday morning.
Two Mexican Mennonite men face multiple charges in connection with the cross-border trafficking of $2-million worth of cocaine, and Tuesday morning, police quietly arrested the men in Taber, 250-kilometres south east of Calgary.