ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - This weekend just north of the Sumas border crossing, police made the biggest cocaine bust in Abbotsford history.
Officers came across a man with two padlocked duffel bags at 7:45 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 2, in the 2000 block of Clearbrook Road, about 5 miles from Sumas. The 24-year-old man was "unable to provide many answers" about the bags, so he was searched, according to Abbotsford police.
Insde the bags police said they found about about 60 kilograms (132 pounds) in bricks of cocaine.
Canadian police arrested the suspect on suspicion of trafficking drugs. The case remains under investigation.
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