U.S. officials nab truckers at Ontario border with 483 kg of cocaine in trailer

U.S. border officials arrested two truck drivers attempting to smuggle hundreds of kilograms of cocaine into Canada.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers stopped a British Columbia-registered tractor hauling an Ontario-registered trailer on Dec. 16 at 2 a.m. going through the Blue Water Bridge entry point at Port Huron, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan.

CBP officers X-rayed the vehicle headed for Canada and “identified anomalies in the rear of the trailer,” states an affidavit signed by a special agent for the Department of Homeland Security.

The bill of lading signed by the driver stated that the trailer contained 25 pallets of aluminium cans loaded in Colorado. It only had four pallets of aluminium cans. The trailer was loaded with several boxes, suitcases and luggage bags full of bricks of white powder.

Officers found 379 bricks weighing 483.79 kg of white powder that tested positive for cocaine.

Officials detained driver Abishek Jain and co-driver Satwant Singh Kaler. They are facing federal drug charges and have been taken to the St. Clair County Jail in Michigan. Charges have not yet been proven in court.