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Jul 4, 2022 9:30 PM - The Canadian Press

50 bricks of suspected cocaine seized at Aldergrove border crossing

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Canada Border Services says it found more than 50 bricks of drugs when officers searched a truck trying to cross from the United States at the Aldergrove border crossing. (Photo - CBSA)

Canada Border Services says it found more than 50 bricks of drugs when officers searched a truck trying to cross from the United States at the Aldergrove border crossing.

The agency says officers noticed that some pallets had been tampered with when they searched the truck last month.

They found 50 kilograms of suspected cocaine and one kilo of heroin.

The RCMP has taken over the investigation and no charges have been announced.

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