Mounties first arrested Joseph Thomas and Bradley Wise in September 2014 about 50 kilometres north of Tofino.
The cocaine was found on board. The men were released as the investigation continued.
One sailboat he arranged was intercepted northwest of Aruba in the Caribbean with more than 200 kilograms of cocaine on board. The skipper, Canadian Simon Peter Danielson, was alleged to have offloaded another 400 kilos of drugs prior to his arrest. He was later sentenced in Florida to 10 years and transferred to a Canadian prison a year ago.Article content
“Quickly growing in scale and complexity, the joint force international investigation included 12 wiretap authorizations, and over 500 other judicial authorizations necessary for gathering evidence from deep inside the sophisticated and heavily insulated criminal network, which included the decryption of previously impenetrable PGP encrypted devices.”Article content
Hundreds of kilograms of cocaine was also intercepted near the Galapagos Islands on a vessel being piloted by two other Canadians.
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