Canadian tug company charged over 2021 fatal capsizing incident off British Columbia

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has stated that charges have been filed against a local vessel operating company and one of its directors over a capsizing incide ..

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Police seize long guns, machete, body armor at US-Canada border protest, arrest 11

A protest convoy of trucks and other vehicle at the US-Canada border in Coutts, Albeta

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrested 11 people and seized over a dozen long guns, multiple handguns, ammunition, high-capacity magazines, a machete and body armor in an operation targeting a “small organized group” within the protest blockade near the U.S.-Canada border in Coutts, Alberta, authorities said.   

Police made the arrests and seizures while executing a warrant after receiving information that the group had a cache of weapons and a large amount of ammunition, the RCMP said in a...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/police-seize-long-guns-machete-body-armor-at-us-canada-border-protest-arrest-11

Trucker charged after $11M cocaine bust at Canadian border

Four duffle bags filled with cocaine seized from a truck at the Canadian border.

A truck driver was arrested and charged after border officers seized over $11 million worth of cocaine after it entered Canada from the U.S. via Buffalo, New York, authorities said Thursday.

Pardeep Singh, 24, of LaSalle, Quebec, was arrested on June 15 after a secondary inspection on the Canadian side of the Peace Bridge, which links Fort Erie, Ontario, and Buffalo.

Canada Border Services Agency officers discovered five duffel bags containing almost 250 pounds of cocaine, according to a joint...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/trucker-charged-after-11m-cocaine-bust-at-canadian-border

Massive opium bust at Port of Vancouver leads to warehouse sting

Pictures of opium seized in a drug bust at the Port of Vancouver.

Seizing nearly $8 million worth of opium found in two shipping containers at Port of Vancouver wasn’t enough for Canadian police and border officers. They swapped out the drugs with a dummy substance and followed the shipment to a warehouse where they arrested five suspects.

Authorities disclosed the operation on Monday, more than six weeks after the Feb. 11 opium bust at Vancouver’s Deltaport — the largest container terminal in Canada — and after months of investigation. There, officers from...

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