Agents seize 203 kg of cocaine at Alberta border in 3 busts

Border officers in southern Alberta made the region's biggest ever cocaine seizure earlier this month when they found 83 bricks of the drug hidden in the cab of a truck.

On Oct. 10, Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) agents at the Coutts border found the cocaine hidden in a commercial truck hauling produce.

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"The total weight of this seizure was 92.74 kg, which makes it the largest cocaine seizure made by CBSA officers in the Prairie Region to date," the agency said in a release.

Two men, one from British Columbia and the other from Ontario, were arrested and turned over to RCMP.

They appeared in court on Oct. 18 in Lethbridge to face charges of possession of a controlled substance for the purpose of trafficking and importing a controlled substance, RCMP said in a release.

Two other searches in September turned up a total of 109 kilos of cocaine, netting numerous charges against four men.

On Sept. 2, officers discovered 69 kilograms of cocaine hidden in a load of televisions in a commercial truck.

Two days later, another commercial truck was found to be hiding 40 kilograms of cocaine in a shipment of Halloween costumes.

In all three cases, the commercial trucks were operating for trucking companies based in British Columbia, CBSA says.

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