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Fifteen people, including six from Montreal, face charges in connection with an RCMP investigation into several drug smuggling conspiracies that allegedly involved employees of the Canadian Coast Guard and the Department of National Defence.

The RCMP released details of Operation Harrington during a news conference held in Dartmouth, N.S., on Tuesday. The investigation began two years ago when investigators received a tip that someone in Canada was preparing to smuggle cocaine from South America to Nova Scotia. As the investigation progressed, investigators learned that several people tied to Mexican and Colombian drug cartels were looking to bring cocaine into Canada. While 200 kilograms of cocaine was seized, the RCMP said Tuesday that it “had control” of what the drug smugglers thought was going to arrive in Nova Scotia.

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“In this particular case, we had control of how some of these conspiracies unfolded,” said RCMP Inspector Glen Lambe without revealing much more.