Largest seizure of suspected cocaine in Alberta made at Coutts
The Director for Canada Border Services (CBSA) says locating contraband in the thousands of vehicles that cross the border at Coutts every day is like looking for a needle in a haystack. But, on Saturday, December 2, CBSA officers found the needle.
At a news conference in Calgary, Guy Rook detailed that at 12:50 in the morning, officers searched a semi truck and trailer, that was hauling a load of produce from California to a business in the province. What they found, turned out to be a record seizure of drugs coming into Alberta.
“Officers opened a microwave and found eight bricks of suspected narcotics, a drawer beneath the microwave and the area behind the microwave revealed another 14 bricks – officers then recovered 18 bricks, wedged between the end of the bed and the wall of the truck.”
It didn’t end there.