(Red Deer RCMP)

By rdnewsNOW staff

Red Deer RCMP Crime Reduction Team make significant drug seizure

Oct 16, 2025 | 1:51 PM

Charges have been laid following the seizure of drugs and firearms from a local residence this month.

In early October, Mounties say the Red Deer RCMP Crime Reduction Team (CRT) began an investigation into a drug trafficker believed to be active in the central Alberta area, including within the city of Red Deer.

As a result of the investigation, Red Deer RCMP CRT, with assistance from Red Deer RCMP General Investigation Section (GIS), Police Dog Services (PDS), and Sylvan Lake RCMP, executed a search warrant on Oct. 10, 2025, which led to the seizure of the following:

• 1.17 kg of Cocaine;
• 1.459 Kg of Methamphetamine;
• 3.135 Kg of Fentanyl;
• Equipment used to manufacture illegal drugs;
• 3 loaded firearms.

Red Deer RCMP have charged Jesse Bergstrom, 41, with;

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• Possession for the purpose of trafficking (x3);
• Production of a controlled substance;
• Weapons offences (x8);
• Failing to comply with release order (x2);
• Possession of counterfeit currency.

Police say Bergstrom has been taken before a Justice of the Peace and remanded into custody to appear in court Oct. 29, 2025, at the Alberta Court of Justice in Red Deer.

RCMP further note, this is the same individual subject to a search warrant where loaded firearms and over a Kg of ketamine was seized on April 17, 2025.

“This investigation demonstrates the excellent commitment and effort our teams make every day to increase public safety,” says A/Operation Support Officer S/Sgt. Ian Ihme. “Our office, like all RCMP detachments, show a high level of interoperability and work in a coordinated effort to track down high risk offenders and drug traffickers no matter where they reside. Specifically in this file, there was a coordinated effort between our Crime Reduction Team, General Investigation Section, and the Sylvan Lake Detachment.”