An individual that the Royal Canada Gendarmerie has already arrested in an anti-drug investigation eighteen years ago is again wanted by federal police, after having missed the authorities in another narcotic investigation.
André Chartrand, 53, of Notre-Dame-de-la-merci, was arrested in March 2023, in the wake of the dismantling of a cocaine processing laboratory that occurred a year earlier.
Chartrand has been accused of several charges related to the production, possession and trafficking in narcotics, and was temporarily released. He was to be present in court for his trial which opened on June 23, but he never presented himself.
The RCMP launched a design notice by press release on Friday and released the photo of Chartrand.
In 2007, Chartrand was arrested in another GRC survey called Channel, by which the federal police had dismantled a network of drug traffickers and an ecstasy production laboratory, and apprehended 28 individuals.
According to a press release issued by the RCMP at the time, Chartrand was then considered “as the cornerstone of several drug transactions”.
A mole comes out of his hole
It was through conversations captured in 2006 as part of the Channel investigation that the federal police had doubts about the presence of a mole in their ranks.
The investigators then set up a false investigation project called Château to wedge this taupe, Angelo Cecere, a blind civilian employee who translated conversations into Italian intercepted during the famous anti-Mafia Colisée investigation which was spread over four years, from 2002 to 2006.
Cecere had been sentenced to one year imprisonment in 2013.
Anyone with information that could lead to the arrest of André Chartrand is requested to communicate with the RCMP at 514-939-8300/1-800-771-5401, requests the federal police.
To reach Daniel Renaud, compose him 514 285-7000, post 4918, write to [email protected] or write to the email address of the press
