The Canada Border Services Agency found cocaine it said is worth more than $9 million in two suitcases left unclaimed at Winnipeg’s airport.
The suitcases were from an international flight. The CBSA found 60 wrapped packages containing a total of 74.8 kilograms of suspected cocaine on Feb. 9.
The CBSA said it is the biggest-ever narcotics seizure at an airport in the Prairie region. The drugs were handed over to Manitoba RCMP.
“Every day through the vigilance, expertise and commitment of CBSA officers, we are combatting the smuggling of illegal narcotics into Canada and disrupting international crime networks,” Greg Valentine, the director of CBSA’s intelligence and enforcement operations division for the region, said in a news release. ”Thanks to the quick thinking of officers at the Winnipeg International Airport, more than 75 kg of cocaine is not going to make it to Canadian streets, where it could have injured or destroyed countless lives.”
