More possible victims of a case of suspected food poisoning at a prominent hotel have come forward.

A provincial government spokeswoman said two more reports came in on Friday after an article was published in the Free Press.

It brings the official total to 17 people who have complained they got sick after eating at a buffet at the Victoria Inn Hotel and Convention Centre at 1808 Wellington Ave., last weekend.

However, the Free Press heard from others who got sick but didn’t report it.

Winnipeg Police Service investigators arrested the alleged leader of a drug-smuggling ring that was trafficking cocaine from the city into a remote, fly-in First Nation in northwestern Ontario late last year, court documents reveal.

Details of the police investigation — dubbed Project Safe Haven — are included in a recent civil forfeiture lawsuit, filed in Court of King’s Bench by provincial justice officials seeking to keep cash, luxury vehicles and designer goods seized from the alleged ringleader and his girlfriend.

WPS organized-crime investigators began the project last July, focusing on a group of individuals alleged to be selling illicit substances, including cocaine, in North Spirit Lake First Nation, under the direction of a group people in Winnipeg, who were then laundering the cash.

Quinn Alexander Davidson, a 34-year-old who’s currently serving a 3 1/2-year sentence in a British Columbia prison on a cocaine trafficking conviction, is alleged to be the Winnipeg ringleader.