5 YEARS OF DRUG BUSTS AT THE BLUE WATER BRIDGE
2023
Dec. 4: Brampton trucker, 27, charged after officers find boxes with 52 kg suspected cocaine. Case still before courts.
Aug. 3: Caledon trucker, 26, charged with importing methamphetamine. Case still before courts.
July 8: Toronto and Ottawa men charged with importing $6 million in cocaine and heroin. Case still before courts.
April 11: Mississauga trucker, 30, charged after officers seize 45 kg of suspected cocaine worth $2-plus million. Case still before courts.
2022 Dec. 14:
Caledon trucker, 55, charged after officers find 82 bricks of suspected cocaine worth $4 million. Case still before courts.
Dec. 11: Two Brampton truckers charged after officers seize 89 bricks of suspected cocaine worth as much as $6 million. Case still before courts. Oct. 17: 224 kg of cocaine worth about $9.4 million seized.
Charges against Brampton trucker, 68, later dropped.
June 21: Toronto trucker, 62, charged after suitcases holding 100 bricks of suspected cocaine are found. Case still before courts.
April 8: Brampton trucker, 25, charged after officers seize suspected cocaine and heroin. Case still before courts.
Jan. 13: Quebec trucker, 23, charged after officers find 265 kg of suspected heroin, pink cocaine and meth. Case still before courts.
2021 March 31:
About 62 kg of suspected cocaine worth about $3.5 million found in two suitcases in a trailer. Brampton trucker, 25, convicted of importing at trial and sentenced to 11 years in prison.
2019 May 24:
Brantford man, 29, caught with $5 million in cocaine hidden in a steel compartment underneath the third row of seats in his SUV. He pleaded guilty to importing drugs and will be sentenced later this month.