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
