Police in Montreal found about seven tonnes of hashish, or around seven million grams, packed into an abandoned trailer in the city’s west end.[1] The dark, laptop-sized bricks had been shrouded in denim clothing and stuffed into cardboard boxes, cramming the entire trailer.[1]

The container, number HJCU 8291013, had been left on a tractor-trailer in a LaSalle storage centre when the RCMP’s Montreal drug section seized it on 12 September 2010.[2] Police had received a call about the suspicious container after it sat in the lot for several days, and obtained a search warrant before opening it.[1]

RCMP spokesman Cpl. Luc Thibault called the find “a big one” and one of the largest hashish seizures his detachment could remember.[1] No arrests were made, and investigators asked the public for tips to advance the case.[1][2] Thibault would not speculate on the street value of the load; the report noted that a 2007 RCMP price survey put hash at $10 a gram, which would price the trailer’s contents at about $70 million.[1]