$6M worth of cocaine found in truck crossing Canadian border from North Dakota

Canadian border agents seized nearly 140 pounds of cocaine worth $6 million from a commercial truck seeking to enter the country from northeastern North Dakota, officials said.

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The haul was found July 14 in a search of the truck at the Emerson port of entry in southern Manitoba, just north of the border crossing at Pembina, North Dakota, according to a joint statement released Thursday by the Canada Border Services Agency and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

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Canadian officials said it was the largest narcotics seizure at any Manitoba port of entry in the last five years.

A 31-year-old Winnipeg man was arrested on drug trafficking charges and later released, the statement said.