1,300 kg of hashish seized from Malawi container at Port of Montréal
Border officers at the Port of Montréal seized more than 1,300 kg of suspected hashish hidden inside laminated floor pieces in a container from Malawi on 10 December 2015. Detector dog River found the drugs; no arrests were reported and the CBSA and RCMP are investigating.
🇨🇦 Port of Montréal, Quebec · Quebec, Canada
Cannabis
1.3 t
Border officers at the Port of Montréal seized more than 1,300 kg of suspected hashish on 10 December 2015 from a marine container arriving from Malawi filled with boards of floating floor and wooden handcrafted furniture.[1]The drugs were concealed inside the laminated floor pieces and were detected by River, a seven-year-old Labrador retriever trained to find drugs and firearms.[1][2]
A later X-ray exam showed suspicious forms inside the floor pieces, which officers broke open one by one to remove a total of 3,046 packets of suspected hashish.[1]A later summary describes the same seizure as 3,000 packets found within the floor pieces on 10 December.[2]
No arrests were reported, and the CBSA and the RCMP are investigating.[2]CBSA officers in Quebec had made more than 2,700 drug seizures since the start of 2015.[1]
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