7 tonnes of hashish found in abandoned trailer in Montreal
Police in Montreal found about seven tonnes of hashish packed into an abandoned trailer in a LaSalle storage lot on the weekend of 11-12 September 2010 after a tip from the public. The RCMP called it one of the largest hashish seizures its Montreal detachment could remember; no arrests had been made.
Police in Montreal found about seven tonnes of hashish packed into an abandoned trailer in a storage lot in the west-end borough of LaSalle on the weekend of 11-12 September 2010.[1][2]Officers acted on a call from a member of the public and moved in with a search warrant.[1]
The whole trailer was crammed with boxes of dark, laptop-sized hash bricks shrouded in denim clothing.[1][2]RCMP spokesman Corporal Luc Thibault called the find one of the biggest hashish seizures his detachment could remember and would not put a dollar figure on the stash.[1][2]A 2007 RCMP drug report had pegged the average street price of hash at 10 dollars per gram, which would value seven tonnes at about 70 million dollars, though Thibault would not speculate on this load.[2]
Reports suggested the hashish originated in Pakistan, one of the world’s leading producers of the resin.[1]No arrests had been made, and police asked the public for help with the investigation.[1]
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Boxes of hashish bricks wrapped in denim clothing piled inside the abandoned trailer.Photo details
The articles date the discovery only to the weekend before their 15 September publication; 12 September is the report's approximate date.
No arrests had been made when the RCMP spoke to reporters; any later arrests were not covered in the opened sources.
The RCMP gave no street value for this load; a 2007 average price of 10 dollars per gram is the only valuation on record.
The reports suggested the hashish originated in Pakistan, but no trafficking route or shipper was identified.
A later RCMP inquiry, Project Celsius, also pursued Pakistani hashish moving through Montreal in containers; no opened source links that case to this trailer.
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