Que. Raids Leave Crowded Prisons Running Shuttle services

Jails are bulging in Quebec: this week, police were rounding up some 200 suspected marijuana producers, distributors and exporters, mainly around Montreal. Last week, another police crackdown in the region led to the arrest of 46 people, allegedly linked to drug trafficking and the Hells Angels. Photograph by: Don Healey, Regina Leader-Post

From Canada.com:

Quebec highways are crowded with prison vans as the strained provincial correctional system tries to cope with the domino effect of a series of raids, mostly in Montreal, targeting hundreds of suspected criminals since the spring and adding to already overcrowded prisons.

This week, police were rounding up some 200 suspected marijuana producers, distributors and exporters, mainly around Montreal. Last week, another police crackdown in the region led to the arrest of 46 people, allegedly linked to drug trafficking and the Hells Angels.

Earlier this spring, more than 120 people were arrested in Operation SharQC, an investigation largely credited for crippling the bikers in Quebec.

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