Thousands of shipments of fentanyl, methamphetamine, cocaine, and other narcotics have been confiscated by federal authorities after a month-long operation designed to curb the flow of illegal drugs across the Canada-U.S. border.
More than 2,600 suspected narcotics and precursor seizures were documented by the Canada Border Service Agency (CBSA) as part of “Operation Blizzard,” with 67.5 percent of the intercepted drugs entering the country from the United States, the agency said in a May 28 press release. The remaining 17.5 percent were narcotics being smuggled across Canada’s southern border.
