Tag: cocaine smuggling
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Seven kg cocaine seized at Pearson
The Canadian Bazaar TORONTO: The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has seized over seven kilograms of suspected cocaine at the Toronto Pearson International Airport. The seizure was made from two travellers from Jamaica on March 22 on secondary inspection of their baggage. The drug was hidden in containers which the travellers had declared as coffee.…
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Indo-Canadian gets 15-year jail for $120-million cocaine smuggling racket
The Canadian Bazaar TORONTO: Brampton Indo-Canadian man Parminder Sidhu, 43, has been jailed for 15 years in the US for trying to smuggle cocaine worth $120 million into Canada. Sidhu was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Court Judge William M. Skretny in Buffalo on March 28. He was arrested in 2011 as part of a…
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Punjabi driver, woman arrested for trying to smuggle 100 kg cocaine into Alberta
The Canadian Bazaar December 12, 2017 TORONTO: In what has been described as the biggest-ever haul of cocaine in Alberta, a Punjabi truck driver and a woman passenger from California have been arrested for trying to smuggle almost 100 kg of cocaine into Canada. Gurminder Singh Toor, 31, and Kirandeep Kaur Toor, 26, from California…