RCMP in Thompson took a large cache of drugs, illegal cigarettes and cash from a 50-year-old Winnipeg man during a traffic stop in the northern city on February 1, 2019.

Police say that shortly after 9:00 pm they pulled a vehicle over on Churchill Drive in Thompson as part of an ongoing investigation.

Officers searched the suspect and his vehicle and found 186 flaps of crack/cocaine, more than 1900 pills of which 387 were oxycodone and 326 were codeine. 41 grams of cannabis, a large quantity of cannabis edibles and close to 32,000 illegal cigarettes.

Mounties also recovered a large amount of Canadian currency.

Paul Kettler, 50, from Winnipeg, was charged with:

• Possession for the Purpose of Trafficking (x5)
• Possession of Property Obtained by Crime
•  Possession for the Purpose of Selling under the Cannabis Act
• Transport and Delivery of Unstamped Tobacco
• Possession of Unstamped Tobacco under the Excise Act 
•  Possession of Unstamped Tobacco under the Tobacco Act

RCMP continue to investigate.