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

18 November 2020

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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Marijuana, bongs seized from trucks at US-Canada border

16 October 2020

Glass bongs are lined up after being seized by from a truck at the US Canada border, amid a rise of marijuana seizures.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers seized more than $8 million of marijuana and over 2,000 bongs from commercial trucks in separate incidents at the U.S.-Canada border, the agency said Friday.

The marijuana seizure occurred Thursday at the Peace Bridge, the site of multiple large drug busts involving trucks at the Canada-U.S. border since June.

Officers reportedly discovered 2,410 pounds of marijuana during an inspection of 20 pallets. The driver was not arrested, while the case...

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US border officers find pot, not furniture, in Canadian truck

19 August 2020

Boxes of marijuana found in a Canadian truck by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the US-Canada border.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers discovered more than a half-ton of marijuana during an inspection of a Canadian truck at the U.S. border at the Blue Water Bridge in Michigan on Monday. The pot — manifested as office furniture — was destined for locations in Michigan, CBP said.

The drugs were packed into cardboard boxes loaded onto wooden pallets. Officials did not estimate the value of the marijuana, but estimates from recent border seizures and open-source drug price indexes...

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CBP officers make another big marijuana bust at US-Canada border

13 August 2020

A cardboard box filled with sealed bags of marijuana, seized by US border agents in the latest major marijuana bust at the Canadian border

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers seized $8 million of marijuana after inspecting a shipment at the Peace Bridge in Buffalo in the latest in a string of large drug busts at the Canadian border crossing.

CBP officers...

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Feds still probing $20 million marijuana shipment after trucker’s release

14 July 2020

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officer talks with a truck driver at the Peace Bridge border crossing in Buffalo, New York. Customs and Border Protection Officers found $20 million of marijuana during an inspection of a trailer in June.

U.S. authorities are continuing to investigate the attempted smuggling of $20 million of marijuana from Canada to the U.S. after prosecutors dropped the charges against the trucker hauling the load.

U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy Jr. said in a statement that his office moved to have the criminal complaint dismissed to “allow the government additional time to conduct a full forensic examination of certain electronic evidence recovered during the seizure and to permit additional steps to be taken...

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