Surrey, British Columbia
Canada Border Services Agency
The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) remains committed to fulfilling its mandate to facilitate legitimate trade and essential travel while keeping inadmissible goods, such as narcotics, from entering our communities. Today, the CBSA announced that 20 bricks of suspected cocaine were seized at the Pacific Highway port of entry Commercial Operations.
On May 1, 2020, working collaboratively with the CBSA Pacific Region Intelligence Section, border services officers conducted an examination on a commercial tractor-trailer and noticed anomalies. With the help of a CBSA detector dog, 20 bricks of suspected cocaine were discovered. The total weight of the bricks was approximately 20 kilograms. The CBSA estimates that this quantity of suspected cocaine would be worth over $2.5 million.
