Rookie trucker held after CBP finds pot in Texas-bound pork shipment

Palates of marijuana seized by CBP officers. A trucker was arrested at the US Canada border after marijuana was found in a shipment of pork

A rookie truck driver was arrested and charged after U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers found $2.8 million worth of marijuana hidden in a load of pork bound for El Paso, Texas, at the U.S.-Canada border in Detroit on Monday, court documents show. 

Varinder Singh of Brampton, Ontario, told federal investigators that he was unaware that he was hauling marijuana when he presented his tractor-trailer at the Fort Street Cargo Facility shortly before noon, according to a criminal complaint...

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