Authorities Charge Foreign National After Record Meth Seizure at BC Border

Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) officers confiscated 314 kilograms of methamphetamine last fall, a seizure the agency this week called it's largest to-date at the Abbotsford-Huntingdon port of entry. CBSA handout photo

A foreign national is facing charges linked to what Canada’s border agency is labelling the largest narcotics seizure in the history of British Columbia’s Abbotsford-Huntingdon port of entry.

Canadian border guards caught a man attempting to smuggle a “significant amount” of methamphetamine from the United States at the B.C. crossing last November, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) said in a Feb. 10 press release this week to announce the charges.

Border officers using detector dogs to inspect a commercial vehicle re-entering Canada from the United States on Nov. 22, 2025, found 12 boxes containing 314 kilograms of methamphetamine hidden in the truck and trailer.

“This is the largest narcotics seizure to date at the Abbotsford-Huntingdon port of entry,” CBSA Regional Director General Nina Patel said in the release.

The man was arrested under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act and transferred to the custody of the RCMP, the border agency said.

Satnam Singh has since been charged with the possession of methamphetamine for the purposes of import and trafficking.

“This large seizure represents another truckload of illegal drugs that will not end up in our communities,” Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree said in the release. “It is a product of the dedicated work by the CBSA and RCMP who are on the front lines in the fight against drug trafficking and organized crime.”

Foreign nationals who are apprehended for drug smuggling risk being removed from Canada and barred from re-entering the country, the CBSA said.

Drugs Seized

The latest seizure and charges come after border guards at the Tsawwassen Container Examination Facility in British Columbia confiscated more than 26 kilograms of cocaine concealed within a container that was declared as a shipment of frozen fruit from Colombia.

The officers found 23 bricks of cocaine hidden in the ceiling of the shipping container last October and were handed over to the drug and organized crime investigators unit within the RCMP, the agency said in a press release last December.

Border authorities also found 300 compressed powder bricks of cocaine and 110 vacuum-sealed packages of methamphetamine destined for Australia last September, the agency said in a November 2025 press release that described it as one of the most substantial seizures designated for export at Vancouver’s airport.

Officers from the CBSA Pacific Region conducted 10,428 seizures of illegal narcotics, confiscating a cumulative total of 1,041 kilograms of methamphetamines in addition to other substances from January through October 2025, according to the CBSA. The seizure disclosed this week is not part of that total.

Canada-wide CBSA statistics show border officers have seized the equivalent of 1,921,456 grams of cocaine in the first two quarters of fiscal 2025-2026 as well as more than 1.6 million doses of unidentified drugs and chemicals.

Officers have also confiscated 811 grams of fentanyl and 661,715 grams of other opioids during that period as well as 222,037 grams of hash and 36,559 grams of heroin.

The agency noted that while it confiscated a lower volume of fentanyl than other drugs, it is much more potent.