Ten people are facing a total of 69 charges following a drug bust in the Rainy River District.

Ontario Provincial Police executed a dozen search warrants at various places, include at a motel in downtown Fort Frances, in an operation dubbed Project Jules.

Over $70 thousand in charges and large quantities of cocaine, fentanyl, hydromorphone and crystal meth were seized.

Police estimate the street value of the drugs seized to be almost $500 thousand.

Police say it the two-month undercover operation was done in response to several drug overdoses in the Rainy River District.