Police seize $650K worth of fentanyl, charge 8 people in Ontario-wide drug bust

Ontario Provincial Police work in Beckwith, Ont. on Friday, Feb. 10, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

Editor’s note: Court documents reviewed by CTV News Toronto show that the charges against two of the suspects in this case were withdrawn on May 15, 2023. Their name has been removed from this story.

Ontario police have arrested eight people and seized at least $650,000 worth of drugs after identifying a drug trafficking operation “stemming from the Greater Toronto Area to Thunder Bay.”

A release issued Tuesday said, on March 2, officers executed search warrants at residences located in Thunder Bay, Toronto, Oshawa and Bowmanville, Ont.

As a result, police say eight individuals were arrested and charged with the following offences:

1. Travis Myslicki, 35, of Thunder Bay

2. Jamie Cressman, 53, of Thunder Bay

3. Nicholas McInnis, 24, of Oshawa

4. Quoc Truong, 27, of Toronto

Possession of proceeds of property obtained by crime over $5000

5. A 25-year-old Toronto man

6. Ba-Luc Nguyen, 29, of Toronto

7. Michael Godelia, 28, of Toronto

Conspiracy to commit an indictable offence (trafficking cocaine)

8. A 28-year-old Toronto man

Additionally, approximately six kilograms of suspected cocaine, a quantity of fentanyl with a combined potential street value of $650,000, two vehicles and about $100,000 in cash were seized by officers during the warrant execution, the release states.

The accused are scheduled to make an appearance in a Toronto courtroom on April 13.