Vancouver police make largest-ever cocaine seizure totalling 328 kilograms
Advertisement
Read this article for free:
or
Already have an account? Log in here »
To continue reading, please subscribe:
Digital Subscription
One year of digital access for only $205*
- Enjoy unlimited reading on winnipegfreepress.com
- Read the E-Edition, our digital replica newspaper
- Access News Break, our award-winning app
- Play interactive puzzles
*First annual payment billed as $205.00 + GST for one year. This annual subscription will automatically renew at $233.00 + GST every 52 weeks (10% off the regular annual price of $259.35). Offer available to new and qualified returning subscribers only. Cancel any time.
To continue reading, please subscribe:
Add Free Press access to your Brandon Sun subscription for only an additional
$1 for the first 4 weeks*
- Enjoy unlimited reading on winnipegfreepress.com
- Read the E-Edition, our digital replica newspaper
- Access News Break, our award-winning app
- Play interactive puzzles
*Your next Brandon Sun subscription payment will increase by $1.00 and you will be charged $17.95 plus GST for four weeks. After four weeks, your payment will increase to $24.95 plus GST every four weeks.
Read unlimited articles for free today:
or
Already have an account? Log in here »
VANCOUVER – Police in Vancouver say they’ve made the largest single seizure of cocaine in the history of the force, totalling more than 328 kilograms.
They say a local company called police on July 21 after its staff found 14 duffle bags of drugs hidden among boxes of T-shirts it had ordered.
Sgt. Travis Fraser, with the department’s drug unit, says the business was “shocked by what it found” in the shipping container and called police right away.
Police say the investigation has found the shipping container originated in Honduras, where it was loaded onto a vessel in May that made a stop in Jamaica the next month, before arriving in Montreal on July 5.
Fraser says police believe the cocaine was supposed to be removed before it arrived at the company, but “for some reason, it was not unloaded.”
Police say the ongoing investigation involves collaboration with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency as well as authorities in Honduras and Jamaica.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 22, 2026.