A second ordered inspection of a commercial tractor trailer yielded a massive drug bust for BC border guards last month.
According to Canada Border Services Agency, the commercial truck was carrying personal care products when a border screening caught anomalies in the trailer.
Officers unloaded the trailer, where they found 64 individually wrapped brick-shaped objects, which later tested positive for suspected cocaine.
CBSA reports that the bricks had a combined weight of 71.5 kilograms and an estimated value of more than $3.5 million dollars on the street.
While the exact border crossing was not named on the release, it did state the seizure was in the Pacific Highway District on March 18, 2021.
That area includes the Boundary Bay, Douglas, Pacific Highway, Aldergrove and Abbotsford-Huntingdon crossings.
“The discovery of 64 bricks of suspected cocaine is the direct result of diligent work by our border services officers. They kept Canadians safe by preventing these drugs from entering our communities,” added Yvette Lebrun, director of the CBSA's Pacific Highway District.
The truck driver and the drugs are now in the custody of the RCMP, the agency says.
