
La Loche RCMP targeting bootleggers, drug dealers in an effort to battle addiction, minimize gatherings
Over the last four days, RCMP have received information about people bringing back an excessive amount of beverage alcohol which includes rye, whisky, rum, flavoured coolers and beer.
Speaking on local community radio in La Loche, Staff Sgt. Conrad Logan said RCMP came up with a plan and patrolled and checked traffic coming into the community. He said in his 20 years of RCMP northern Saskatchewan service, bootlegging and purchasing excess amounts of alcohol and sharing it with other people or purchasing booze for other people, has been a problem.
Section 138 of Alcohol and Gaming Regulations Act says a person cannot purchase alcohol and then resell it for a higher price to another person without a licence. A person cannot directly or indirectly sell or offer to sell alcohol.
“If you’re going down South and a friend or colleague asks you to pick up [alcohol], as per the act, you are not allowed to do that anywhere in Saskatchewan,” he said.