The Royal Canadian Mounted Police has announced that Guyanese entertainment deejay, Dwidth Ferguson is wanted in Canada for cocaine importation and trafficking.
According to a statement from the Canadian Police, the 32-year-old Ferguson is suspected of being part of a major gun running and cocaine trafficking network that was based in Canada with links to the Caribbean and South America. The network was being monitored by Canadian authorities for over a year.
Ferguson is believed to be in Canada and the authorities there have been in touch with Guyanese authorities in their efforts to locate him. The deejay worked for the Hits and Jams entertainment group and the Fusion sound system in Guyana.
Twelve other persons who are all Canadians have been arrested and charged in connection with the probe into the drug trafficking and gun running network. Ferguson is the only outstanding suspect.
The Ontario Police Chief Supt. Rick Barnum is confident that the Guyanese suspect will be nabbed.
“We’ll get him,” Barnum told the Canadian media. “It will just take a little bit of time.”
A number of search warrants were conducted earlier this week in and around the GTA, leading to the seizure of 22 firearms, $146,000 in cash, four cars and when combined with the hauls from three other related investigations, a total of 123 kilograms of cocaine.
The Police Chief said that since 2014, drugs would arrive at Pearson International Airport in luggage and other containers aboard planes arriving from California, Trinidad and Tobago, St. Lucia and Guyana. Most of the drugs were to be sold in the Greater Toronto area, but some were shipped onwards to Newfoundland and Labrador.
Smuggled handguns are seen in a police handout photo taken Aug. 29. (OPP)
Over the same period of time, handguns traced back to Florida were brought into Canada, also via Pearson International Airport, Barnum said.
The twelve people who have been arrested across the Greater Toronto Area face a total of 46 charges in connection with a year-long investigation that saw cocaine, prescription pills and handguns smuggled into Ontario from the United States and the Caribbean.
There are reports that the Guyanese deejay who is wanted left Guyana for a visit to Canada recently and it was around the same time that the Canadian authorities decided to move in and effect the arrests of the others.
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