Canada’s border agency says its officers in British Columbia recently confiscated more than 26 kilograms of cocaine concealed within a container that was declared as a shipment of frozen fruit from Colombia.
The drugs were discovered by officers at the Tsawwassen Container Examination Facility on Oct. 31 with the help of detector dogs, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) said in a Dec. 22 press release.
The officers found 23 bricks of cocaine hidden in the ceiling of the shipping container, the agency said. The drugs, which weighed 26.2 kilograms in total, were handed over to the drug and organized crime investigators unit within the RCMP….