Canada border services officers have seized a significant amount of cocaine in two recent busts at Toronto Pearson Airport in Mississauga.
The Canada Border Services Agency said on Wednesday its officers found more than 100 kilograms of suspected cocaine hidden inside pieces of luggage that had arrived on two separate flights from Jamaica.
The agency didn’t say on what dates the flights arrived, nor did it say if any arrests were made.
The CBSA did say the drugs, potentially worth an estimated millions of dollars, were turned over to the RCMP and that the investigation is ongoing.
While the federal agency didn’t reveal the estimated street value of the seized drugs, 100 kilograms of cocaine might draw a return on the street of anywhere from a few million dollars to $10 million or more (based on previous drug busts).
“Street prices for illegal drugs are sensitive to factors such as their purity, how they are cut and sold, and fluctuating levels of local supply and demand,” a CBSA spokesperson told INsauga.com in an earlier email. “It is difficult to quantify street price estimates as there is no one formula that can account for all variables at any point in time. For this reason, the CBSA does not communicate street values for its controlled drugs and substances seizures unless they have been methodically validated for specific legal proceedings.”
In an unrelated incident, authorities at Canada’s biggest and busiest airport seized 11.88 kilograms of cocaine last Dec. 12 after checking a traveller who’d arrived on a flight from Jamaica.
Both the passenger and drugs in that case were turned over to the Mounties, the border services agency said earlier.
(Cover photo: Canada Border Services Agency X)
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