21 Arrested, Cash and Drugs Seized on Mohawk Land
Canadian police seized about $800,000 in drugs and cash on strife-torn Mohawk territory and arrested 21 people on drug and weapons charges Thursday.
About 100 officers led by Ontario Provincial Police seized cocaine and marijuana from homes at Cornwall Island on the St. Regis Indian Reservation and in nearby Cornwall, Ontario, police spokesman Peter West said.
Twelve guns were seized, including at least three automatic rifles. Police also seized about $32,000 in U.S. currency.
In addition to the 21 people arrested, 16 were being sought, West said. Police said about half of the suspects lived on the reservation, which straddles the U.S.-Canadian border.
Authorities said the raid was not connected with a violence-filled struggle over gambling rights on the reservation.
Reservation violence had been quelled since hundreds of New York and Canadian police swarmed onto the Mohawk land on May 1, when two Indians were shot to death in a 10-month-old casino gambling feud.
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