A birthday present, candles, soap and a blanket — all separate and failed decoys used by criminals to attempt to smuggle methamphetamine out of Canada and into Australia over the past 5 months.
The items, which were intercepted in Vancouver, contained close to 1,300 litres of the drug in liquid form and another 400 kilograms of the crystallized version. They were part of a show and tell the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) held in Richmond this week, to highlight an increase in drug seizures from packages destined for Down Under.
It’s a trend Canada’s border agents say is unwelcome.
“Our country should not be seen by criminals as a place that exports dangerous drugs,” said Linell Redmond, director of CBSA’s Intelligence and Investigations Division for the Pacific region.
“We are refusing to be the driver of methamphetamine distribution”.
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