Unpublished Newswire

An 84-year-old art dealer who pleaded guilty last week in a sprawling investigation into the distribution of counterfeit Norval Morrisseau artwork bought around 500 fakes for more than $450,000 and then distributed them across Canada, according to an agreed statement of facts released Wednesday.The document outlines his role in selling forgeries, while peeling back another layer of what investigators call the biggest case of art fraud in Canadian history, a major scheme that has tarnished the late Anishinaabe artist’s legacy.

An Ontario woman was arrested twice in the same day for trafficking cocaine, police say. The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) said the woman was arrested in Dryden and Machin, Ont., on Saturday, June 28. According to a press release published July 2, a suspicious vehicle at a business was reported to the Dryden OPP in the northeast area of the city in the early morning of June 28. A 40-year-old woman from Wabigoon, Ont., was arrested and charged by the Dryden OPP under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, as cocaine, crack cocaine and other evidence of drug trafficking was...