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Police have laid more charges in connection to a drug trafficking operation that stretched from Saskatchewan to Vernon, BC.

Those charged included 27-year-old Jordan Phillipe Marleau of Swift Current, 24-year-old Raymond Lynn Davis, who is still awaiting trial on the 2010 murder of a 44-year-old Swift Current man, and 25-year-old Brock Ernest Palfrey of Coldstream, BC, who has twice been arrested and charged in drug trafficking cases connected to Swift Current.

Three other people from Regina to Vernon are also facing charges in what police are calling "Project Faril."

Marleau was to appear in Swift Current Provincial Court today.

Here is the Press Release from the RCMP's Regina Integrated Drug Unit:
The Regina Integrated Drug Unit continues to investigate several individuals that have been related to the large scale international drug smuggling investigation announced last fall called project Faril.

It is not usual with large scale investigations involving many people, that other networks of people that are involved in criminal activity are identified and then after investigation charged under the Criminal Code or Controlled Drugs and Substances Act.

Project Faril was a very large and complex smuggling operation, as a result of the ongoing efforts of the Regina Integrated Drug Section, the following persons have been charged:

Brock Ernest PALFREY  of Coldstream, BC (presently incarcerated) aged 25
Conspiracy to traffick cocaine, Sec. 5(1) CDSA Conspiracy to commit Extortion, Sec. 346(1.1)(b) and Sec. 465(1)(c)CC.

Raymond Lynn DAVIS  (presently incarcerated) aged 24
Conspiracy to traffick cocaine, Sec. 5(1) CDSA Conspiracy to commit Extortion, Sec. 346(1.1)(b) CC and Sec. 465(1)(c)CC.

Mark Raymond COUNSELL of  Regina  aged 48
Conspiracy to commit Extortion, Sec. 346(1.1)(b) and Sec. 465(1)(c)CC.  appearing in court 2012-03-29

Shae Marjorie JAGER of Vernon BC aged 18
Conspiracy to traffick cocaine, Sec. 5(1) CDSA Conspiracy to commit Extortion, Sec. 346(1.1)(b) and Sec. 465(1)(c)CC.appearing in Court in Regina on 2012-03-29

Jordan Phillipe MARLEAU of Swift Current  aged 27
Traffic in cocaine, Sec. 5(1) CDSA Conspiracy to traffick in cocaine, Sec. 5(1) CDSA and Sec. 465(1)(c)CC..appearing in Court in Swift Current on 2012-03-29

Dion Gerald CLOWRY of Lumby, BC aged 33
Conspiracy to traffick in cocaine, Sec. 5(1) CDSA and Sec. 465(1)(c)CC..appearing in Court in Regina on 2012-03-29

All persons have been charged in relation to a drug trafficking organization in Saskatchewan that stretched as far away as Vernon, British Columbia.