Nova Scotia Traffic Stop Led to Major Cocaine Seizure by US Homeland Unit

Nova Scotia Traffic Stop Led to Major Cocaine Seizure by US Homeland Unit
Const. Chad Morrison, an RCMP officer who led an investigation into a cross-border trafficking network, speaks during a news conference in Halifax on Sept. 26, 2023. The Canadian Press/Michael Tutton
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American and Canadian police displayed a table full of drugs and cash on Monday as they described how a traffic stop in Nova Scotia in May led to one of the largest cocaine busts in western New York state a few months later.

RCMP officers stopped a vehicle on May 26 that had travelled from Ontario to Nova Scotia, and found 40 kilograms of cocaine inside. They arrested a 52-year-old man who they allege was on his way to Halifax-based drug dealers.