A B.C. television and radio host who fled into the province from a U.S. border crossing with 108 kilograms of methamphetamine in her car trunk has been sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison.
Sukhvinder Kaur Sangha pleaded guilty to unlawful importation in 2024 after her October 2021 arrest by the Canada Border Services Agency for fleeing a border crossing in Surrey, B.C., at “high speed” in a rental vehicle.
Police estimated the drugs found in her car were worth between $1 million and $10 million, according to court documents outlining the judge’s reasoning for the sentence.
B.C. Supreme Court Justice John Gibb-Carsley ruled in New Westminster on April 10 that the 47-year-old mother gave “untruthful testimony” by claiming she was threatened and coerced into smuggling drugs, but he bypassed the prosecutor’s suggested sentence of 10 to 12 years in favour of 5.5 years….