CFL player arrested at Michigan border with 1.25 g of marijuana
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers stopped Hamilton Tiger-Cats long-snapper Jordan Matechuk at the International Bridge crossing into Michigan on 31 May 2011 and seized 1.25 grams of marijuana along with steroids and syringes. He was arrested and handed to Sault Ste Marie police; no charges were reported.
🇺🇸 Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan · Michigan, United States
Jordan Matechuk, a long-snapper for the Canadian Football League’s Hamilton
Tiger-Cats, was stopped at the International Bridge border crossing into the
United States on 31 May 2011.[1]According to a release from U.S. Customs and
Border Protection, officers seized1.25 grams of marijuana from him after an
inspection.[1]The same search turned up 543 anabolic steroid pills and 262
millilitres of liquid anabolic steroids, which are outside this tracker’s
cannabis scope.[1]
Matechuk was arrested and turned over to the Sault Ste Marie Police Department.[1]Customs spokesperson Devin Chamberlain said anabolic steroids are a
Schedule III controlled substance that it is illegal to possess without a
prescription.[1]No charges or court outcome related to the marijuana were
reported.[1]
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The article gives no charges or court outcome related to the marijuana, and it is not clear whether any prosecution followed.
The crossing is described only as the International Bridge at Sault Ste Marie without a state; Michigan is inferred from the U.S. customs agency and police department involved.
The seizure happened on 31 May but was announced the following week, so the publication date is not the incident date.
Only one account of the event was found; the CBC text is a Canadian Press rewrite of the customs statement, and no customs release was opened.
No photo of the seizure was published on the page; the page image is a CBC logo.
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