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Border agents seized more than 60 kilograms of what's believed to be cocaine hidden by loads of corn in a commercial truck that crossed the Manitoba border earlier this month, authorities say.
Officers with a team of drug-detecting dogs found bricks of the suspected cocaine concealed in a modified compartment within the truck's trailer after it arrived at the Emerson border crossing in the early morning hours of July 14, director Rossel Lapointe of the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) said at a Thursday morning news conference at the Manitoba RCMP D Division headquarters in Winnipeg.
The total amount of suspected drugs seized was roughly 63 kilograms, which Lapointe said is estimated to have a street value of $6 million.
"This is the agency's largest land border narcotics seizure in Manitoba in the last five years," he said.
It's "very common" for officers to find people trying to move drugs across the border, he said.
"We had to offload the commercial product that was covering the concealed compartment, and then using … tools, detection technology, we were able to manually open the compartment ourselves."
