Two Ontario males each face a handful of charges after a traffic stop near Indian Head earlier this week resulted in the seizure of opium and illicit cigarettes.

A Saskatchewan RCMP news release says officers, with the assistance of the Moose Jaw Crime Reduction Team and Fort Qu’Appelle RCMP, conducted a search of the semi and trailer  locating about 427 grams of opium and 490 boxes of unstamped cigarettes, about four-point-nine million individual units. Two men were arrested.

Twenty-seven-year-old Manjinder Singh and 23-year-old Harmanjeet Singh, both of Brampton, Ontario, were traveling to B-C in a tractor trailer unit back on Monday evening at about 9 o’clock when they were pulled over on a traffic stop by Indian Head RCMP on Highway 1.

Charges laid against the two men include:

one count, possession for the purpose of trafficking, Section 5(2), Controlled Drugs and Substances Act;

one count, sell, offer for sale, transport, deliver, distribute, or have in his possession for the purpose of sale a tobacco product, or a raw leaf tobacco that is unstamped, Section 121.1(1), Criminal Code;

one count, sell, offer for sale of have in his possession a tobacco product unstamped, Section 32(1), Excise Act;

one count, unlawfully import tobacco into Saskatchewan, Section 27(2) and Section 27(5), Tobacco Tax Act; and

one count, possess, store, transport or sell tobacco that is not marked in a prescribed manner, Section 11(8), Tobacco Tax Act.