A Quebec man who moved thousands of oxycodone pills onto a Mohawk reserve straddling the Canada-U.S. border paid his couriers in drugs instead of cash — at a rate of three or four pills for every 25 sold — fuelling rampant opiate addiction, U.S. prosecutors said. He hid the pills in a secret compartment in his vehicle and in a red trailer in front of his home. Each 80-mg pill sold for between $90 and $140, prosecutors said. In February 2011, a courier sold 54 pills to an undercover agent in Hogansburg, N.Y. As payment to his couriers, the defendant generously provided each courier with three or four oxycodone pills.

Source: National Post October 24, 2018 23:48 UTC