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True Crime Byline: Cocaine, Coyotes & the Coquihalla Highway

When Sask. RCMP made one of the largest drug busts in its history, Barb Pacholik was already inside Project Faril.

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As the RCMP prepared to seize millions of dollars worth of cocaine and ecstasy moving across the Canada-U.S. border, they made a curious decision: to bring a journalist inside the fold of the operation.

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Leader-Post reporter Barb Pacholik was there when an investigation involving 150 to 200 law enforcement officials in three provinces and two States landed one of the biggest drug busts in Saskatchewan RCMP history — after a 30-hour road trip.

Listen to the podcast episode above for more inside details on Project Faril.

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True Crime Byline is a podcast by Postmedia and Antica Productions. In each episode, host Kathleen Goldhar talks to journalists about the cases that made their careers, changed the way they see the world and continue to haunt them. New episodes drop on Thursdays. Subscribe now wherever you get your podcasts!




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