Canadian officials seize hundreds of pounds of suspected cocaine at Blue Water Bridge

Charles E. Ramirez, The Detroit News on Jun 27, 2025

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DETROIT — Authorities seized more than 400 pounds of suspected cocaine this month on the Canadian side of the Blue Water Bridge.

The Canada Border Services Agency said the suspected drugs have an estimated street value of $23.3 million.

The agency said its officers seized 187 kilograms of suspected cocaine from a commercial truck entering the country from the United States on June 12. The truck was referred for a secondary examination; officers inspected the trailer with a narcotics-detecting dog and found 161 bricks of suspected cocaine in 6 boxes.

Authorities said they arrested the truck's driver, Karamveer Singh, 27, of Brampton, Ontario, and turned him over to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

"The safety and security of Canadians is our government’s top priority," Gary Anandasangaree, Canada's Minister of Public Safety, said in a statement. "This seizure demonstrates the crucial role that the CBSA and the RCMP play in stopping contraband from entering our communities. This was outstanding work by officers."

Canadian officials said the country's border services officers have seized a total of 978 kg — or more than 2500 pounds — of cocaine at Southern Ontario ports of entry to date this year.

Michigan shares a 721-mile border with the Canadian province of Ontario.

The flow of dangerous drugs across the U.S.-Canadian border, especially fentanyl, has become a focal point in the trade war between the two countries, though officials disagree about whether more drugs are flowing from Canada or the United States.

This spring, a high-intensity, month-long crackdown by Canadian border authorities, dubbed Operation Blizzard, found that more than two-thirds of all of the illegal drugs, including fentanyl, seized were heading into Canada from the United States, according to Canadian officials. Less than 20% was flowing from Canada into the United States.

Between February and May, U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized 4,211 pounds of drugs along the northern border, a 36% decrease from the same four-month period in 2024 when border patrol agents confiscated 6,624 pounds of drugs, according to CBP data.

For fiscal year 2024, Canadian border officials seized more than 164,000 pounds of illegal drugs, more than 10 times the 11,600 pounds of drugs seized by the U.S. Border Patrol, the agencies reported.

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