RCMP say they’ve apprehended 16 people crossing illegally into Canada from the United States

The RCMP has announced it stopped 16 people illegally crossing the American border into the Canadian Prairies over the past three weeks, none of whom appear to be involved in the fentanyl trade.The top federal Mountie in Alberta and the Canadian Border Services Agency held a press conference Wednesday afternoon detailing three separate incidents, two at or near that province’s Coutts border crossing and one in Manitoba, including a police chase Tuesday that ended in an apparent suicide.