Airborne drug smuggling from Winnipeg to Sanikiluaq continues, with RCMP seizing about 10 grams of cocaine from Sarah Kittosuk on an Aug. 17

Airborne drug smuggling from Winnipeg to Sanikiluaq continues, with RCMP seizing about 10 grams of cocaine from a passenger on an Aug. 17 scheduled Kivalliq Air flight. Tipped off by information from the public, members of the RCMP detachment in Sanikiluaq found 19 plastic-wrapped packets of cocaine in the carry-on luggage of a woman traveling back from Winnipeg.The packets had a street value of $5,000, said Cst. Paul Robinson of the Sanikiluaq RCMP detachment.
Sarah Kittosuk, 36, will appear in court in Sanikiluaq next month to face charges of possession for the purpose of trafficking in connection with the seizure.
Since Kivalliq Air launched a scheduled air service April 1, between Sanikiluaq and Winnipeg, on a 16-seater, twin engine Beach aircraft, security checks on passenger luggage came to a halt.That's when the quantity of drugs and alcohol now flooding into Sanikiluaq began to increase, say police in Sanikiluaq.