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A recent report has revealed that the Ambassador Bridge has become the most busiest entry point of Canada, where cocaine is being seized more than any other land border crossing in the country. The statistics acquired through exercise of Freedom of Information led to the revelation that the Canadian Border Services Agency made 13 cocaine busts at the international crossing in Windsor, during past six years, which resulted in seizure of drugs worth more than $91.5 million. Even though more number of busts were made at other border crossings, none resulted in seizure of worth more than Windsor.
Crown attorney, Richard Pollock, who has prosecuted several fresh smuggling cases, shared that increasing influence of the Mexican drug cartels have fuelled the increment. Discussing the drug cartels, he explained that “we’re not as far away as we really think,” and that “the transportation hub appears to be in California and Texas, land crossings using commercial trucks.” Hence, technically geography places Windsor right in the middle of an overly lucrative and dangerous drug trade, running from the southern U.S. to Montreal. Police spokesperson of Windsor, Sgt. Matt D’asti, admitted that “we know that that cocaine is coming through our border but it’s being distributed throughout the country.”
On the other hand, the type, number and value of drug busts at the Windsor-Detroit Tunnel are completely from those at the bridge. Agents at the tunnel overall conducted 495 seizures, i.e. fifth-most in the country during the same time frame. Marijuana was seized most often.
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