Authorities with the Canada Border Services Agency are reporting their largest narcotics seizure at any Manitoba port of entry in the last five years.
On July 14, agency officers seized nearly 139 pounds of suspected cocaine from a commercial truck at the Emerson port of entry, just across the border from Pembina (ND).
The drugs have an approximate street value of $6 million dollars in Canadian funds ($4.5 million dollars is U-S funds).
The 31-year-old truck driver, Varinder Kaushik of Winnipeg, was arrested on drug charges by border agents, and taken into custody by the Manitoba RCMP.
Kaushik appeared in a Winnipeg Federal Court on July 19 and was released on conditions.
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(Photo: Canada Border Services Agency/Royal Canadian Mounted Police)