Mohamed Ahmed Abdirahman, 40, was previously convicted of importing and possessing 200 kilograms of pure methamphetamine.
Officers with the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) at the Ambassador Bridge discovered the drugs on Christmas Eve 2019 in the cab of Abdirahman’s transport truck.
The drugs were in 200 individual packages stored in seven boxes and two plastic totes, the court estimated the drugs would be worth four million dollars if sold by the kilogram, or $29 million if sold by the gram.
“The offence itself is aggravating; (importing) an extremely large quantity of damaging drugs,” Justice Bruce Thomas said Wednesday.
During the trial and in his pre-sentence report, Abdirahman maintains he did not know the drugs were in his truck.
Although there were dozens of communications on his phone with a contact named ‘El Chapo’, Justice Thomas found there was no proof Abdirahman was more than “a mere courier”.
Still, Justice …