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Four people from Vancouver Island have been arrested and charged with trafficking two young girls.

On Tuesday afternoon, an off-duty RCMP officer spotted three vehicles driving at a high rate of speed east on Highway 1 toward Swift Current, Sask. Police said the three vehicles appeared to be travelling together. They were driving in close proximity, in the same direction and at the same high rate of speed.

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Swift Current RCMP officers intercepted them and all three vehicles were pulled over for driving at a speed of 153 kilometres an hour.

During the traffic stop, the officers spoke to the drivers and the passengers of the vehicles.

They quickly became suspicious of the relationships between three adult men, one woman and two young female passengers. The girls were sitting in the back seat of separate vehicles, which had tinted windows. The girls had no identification.

The Mounties arrested a man and one woman from Victoria and two men from Nanaimo.