Montreal man arrested by PEI Police in 2018 drug bust sentenced to 30 months in prison

A Montreal man, arrested by PEI police in a drug bust in early 2018, has been sentenced to 30 months in prison.  Andre Pelletier of Montreal was arrested in January 2018 in Edmundston, New Brunswick by PEI RCMP and Serious Organized Crime officers after a traffic stop.  The traffic stop resulted in Police seizing 11.4 pounds of methamphetamine (over 11,000 tablets) and 25 grams of cocaine. The RCMP says the drugs were packaged for wide spread distribution and were destined for the streets of New Brunswick and PEI.  Pelletier was sentenced in a Montreal court last Friday to 30 months in a federal penitentiary and prohibited from possessing weapons for life after being charged with possession of methamphetamine for the purposes of trafficking.  As part of an investigation that began in Fall of 2016, police were looking into organized crime groups supplying methamphetamine to PEI.