TORONTO, July 3 /CNW/ - Members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Toronto Airport Detachment General Investigation Impact Team have charged Denis ROUSSY (40) of Barrie with two counts of importing cocaine and two counts of conspiracy to import cocaine into Canada. ROUSSY is part of an alleged criminal drug smuggling organization that used human couriers to import cocaine into Canada through Toronto's Pearson International Airport.
In September 2008 and March 2009 Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) interdicted two separate human couriers with a total of 11 kilograms of cocaine. The two seemingly unrelated events were linked to ROUSSY following an in depth RCMP investigation. ROUSSY is alleged to have recruited the couriers and arranged for their travel to southern destinations to pick up cocaine on behalf of his criminal organization.
"Working hand in hand with our partner agencies we have dismantled yet another criminal organization which is using the Toronto Airport as a conduit to illegally import drugs into Canada," stated Inspector Dean Dickson, Officer in Charge of the RCMP Toronto Airport Detachment. "We are fully aware that couriers are routinely used by these criminal organizations as pawns, so it is rewarding to apprehend those ultimately responsible."
Denis ROUSSY is scheduled to appear at Brampton Court for a bail hearing on July 3rd, 2009.
For further information: Sgt. Mia Poscente, RCMP Toronto Airport Detachment, Cell: (416) 574-7009
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