LOWER MAINLAND, B.C. — Canadian authorities arrested a truck driver and seized a large amount of suspected cocaine in a smuggling attempt at a Whatcom County border crossing.
The Canada Border Services Agency says officers used a variety of detection tools to examine a tractor-trailer from California that was carrying personal care products on March 18th.
They unloaded the trailer and found 64 individually wrapped bricks of a substance that tested positive for cocaine.
The drugs weighed about 160 pounds and have a street value of $3.5 million.
The RCMP took the driver into custody.