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said its crew found the contraband in a maintenance compartment that contained “critical” electrical gear and reported the find both to local officials and the RCMP.
The crew members are now being held in separate detention facilities. The men are inside a communal cell with accused drug criminals, said the company in a statement. The plane used to be owned by a sub-contractor that carried 1.5 million passengers annually on Air Canada Express flights, beforeMy phone blew up when this happened... it’s a big dealofficers found more than 200 kilograms of cocaine – about $25-million-worth in street value – inside the plane. It had arrived on March 31 and was scheduled to fly to Toronto.Article content
“I actually didn’t believe it at first,” said the pilot, who asked not to be named because of the sensitivity of the topic in in Canada’s small aviation industry. “All four of I personally know, I’ve worked with all of them. My brain was trying to process: how could this be happening?”Article contentthat it inspected the plane in response to an intelligence report and eventually found eight black gym bags packed with 200 bricks of cocaine.
Cocaine is not produced or coca plants grown anywhere in the Caribbean so it likely originated in Colombia or possibly Peru or Bolivia, said Jason Eligh, a senior expert with the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime. Given that flights arriving from any of those coke-producing nations face intense scrutiny, traffickers often route them first through other places, he said, and the West Indies is a favourite.
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