A major drug supplier to the territory was convicted on Monday, the results of months of work by the Whitehorse RCMP to take out a drug trafficking ring.

Jesse Ritchie, 36, pleaded guilty Monday in Yukon territorial court to trafficking cocaine and marijuana.

He is the second person to be convicted after the RCMP’s 2013 Monolith operation.

The force called the operation “one of the most significant organized crime investigations in the territory to date,” at the time.

Crown prosecutor Sue Bogle read an agreed statement of facts to the court, giving a glimpse into the police operation that ended with five men arrested and hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and drugs seized.

A drug dealer turned informant was the crucial part of the evidence.

The informant’s identity is protected by a publication ban.

In exchange for his work, he received immunity, money and a new identity.

In August 2013, the man officially started working for the police.

That gave the RCMP access to communications between Ritchie and the informant.

“Arrangement for supply was done through coded messages on cellphone calls, texts and in person meetings both in (B.C.’s) Lower Mainland and Whitehorse,” Bogle said.

On Aug. 7, Ritchie told the informant he had arranged for a 40-pound shipment of marijuana to be delivered to Whitehorse.

On Aug. 30, the informant collected one kilogram of cocaine Ritchie had sent.

He immediately turned it over to the RCMP, who sent it for analysis.

“(The product) was 60 per cent cocaine according to Health Canada,” said Bogle.

On Sept. 5, the informant took possession of 7.8 lbs. of the 40-lb. shipment, which he gave to the RCMP.

The next day, the RCMP obtained a warrant to intercept communications between Ritchie and the informant.

On Sept. 19, more drugs arrived and the informant took possession of 44 pounds of marijuana and one kilogram of cocaine that had been delivered at Ritchie’s residence in Ibex Valley.

The total bill came to $169,800.

The informant, using money provided by the RCMP, paid $35,000 upfront to Ritchie.

On Sept. 26, the informant told Ritchie he had buried $80,000 in Whitehorse.

When Ritchie came to retrieve it, police agents photographed him as he recovered the money in a wooded area off Grey Mountain Road.

On Oct. 9, the informant took possession of another kilogram of coke.

On Nov. 3, he met with an intermediary to pay some of his outstanding $107,000-debt for all the drugs.

The exchange was caught on surveillance camera.

On Nov. 17, the RCMP decided to end the investigation.

Ritchie was arrested at the SKKY Hotel in Whitehorse.

Police obtained search warrants for the room and his cabin.

They seized three cellphones, a receipt for the purchase of five cellphones, a bulletproof vest, some pot and $18,000 in $20-bills.

Ritchie has been free on bail since April 2014.

He is scheduled to be in Yukon territorial court next March for sentencing.

Two other accused men in this case, Asif Aslam and Matthew Truesdale, are scheduled for trial next spring.

They were in court today to continue an application to have the presiding judge, John Faulkner, step aside from the case. They cited the fact he was the one who signed off on the warrants that led to many of the drug seizures.

Both counsel, however, asked for an adjournment as they were in discussion with Crown prosecutor Eric Marcoux, hinting at a possible deal.

Earlier this year, Kuntoniah Graham was convicted of the possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking, while Jason MacMillan was acquitted of similar charges.

Both had been arrested in B.C. in the Monolith operation.