U.S. authorities have added another Canadian trucker to their rapidly growing roster of drivers accused of cross-border drug smuggling.
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According to cops, investigators were tipped off about a load of cocaine being transported in a semi-tractor trailer destined for Canada.
Late Monday night, Berrien County Sheriff’s deputies spotted the suspect vehicle and conducted an impromptu traffic stop on I-94 in western Michigan. Law enforcement said the Freightliner tractor-trailer was pulled over on eastbound I-94 near mile marker 34.
Assisted by Michigan State Police, cops searched the truck and trailer and say they discovered 123 pounds of cocaine hidden in the vehicle. Investigators estimated the drugs have a street value of around $1.5 million.
Driver Sukhraj Singh, 22, of Caledon, was arrested and taken to the Berrien County Jail where he awaits charges.
The takedown is just the latest in a series of high-profile dope busts targeting trucks en route to Canada.
In October, St. Clair County Sheriff’s deputies seized more than 370 pounds of cocaine from a semi-tractor trailer in Port Huron. Sukjindr Singh, 29, of Peel Region, was nabbed on Oct. 15 when he was pulled over during a traffic stop on Pine Grove Ave. in Port Huron, across the St. Clair River from Sarnia.
Singh has now been charged with delivery of a controlled substance of 1,000 grams or more. The drugs have a street value of with a street value of $16.5 million, police said.
In September, Naseeb Chisty, 49, of Etobicoke, was arrested in northwestern Indiana after state troopers said they found nearly 300 pounds of cocaine in his semi-truck during a traffic stop on I-94 near Chesterton, about an hour southeast of Chicago.
In August, 42-year-old Canadian trucker Juli Sabosan Sathiaseelan was nabbed at the Blue Water Bridge with 266 pounds of cocaine after U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents said they discovered the secret payload..
In February, Canadian trucker Gagandeep Singh was arrested during a stop at the Ambassador Bridge in Detroit where feds seized about 661 pounds of cocaine worth $8.7 million
In May 2023, more than 132 pounds of cocaine was seized from a truck that entered Canada through Detroit over the Ambassador Bridge, and the truck’s driver, Jasbir Singh, 40, of Paris, Ont., was arrested.
Months earlier, Canadian officials seized nearly 600 pounds of suspected heroin, cocaine and methamphetamines on a truck entering Canada from Port Huron over the Blue Water Bridge. The truck’s driver, Arshdeep Singh, 23, of Quebec City, was arrested.
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