ONE BRIDGE, MANY BUSTS

Major cocaine seizures on the Canadian side of the Blue Water Bridge near Sarnia

2015:

Authorities seize 31 bricks of cocaine, totalling 34 kilograms, from the flatbed undercarriage of a truck entering the country April 4. A 32-year-old Quebec trucker is charged. The seizure boosts to 196 kilos the total amount of cocaine intercepted by border service officers in Sarnia in the previous year.

2014:

39 kilograms of cocaine found in a commercial vehicle intercepted on inspection in November. Two Quebec residents charged.

More than 123 kilograms of suspected cocaine, worth an estimated $12.3 million, found in a wall panel of a pickup truck’s cargo bed, divided into 105 packages. Two men from Stoney Creek, Ont., charged.

2010:

Two Toronto-area men charged after 47 kilograms of cocaine, worth nearly $6 million, seized in February from a transport truck carrying medical supplies.

2009:

50 kilograms of cocaine, worth as much as $6.25 million, found hidden in a tractor-trailer loaded with electronics. A 26-year-old Brampton man is charged.

2008:

230 kilograms of cocaine with a street value of $28.7 million found in the cab of a transport truck in February, in the largest border-crossing drug seizure in Canadian history to that point.