Hamilton police seize $4.5M in illegal cannabis destined for United States

CBC.ca · Cbc News · last updated November 21, 0003 – 3:51 AM

A 56-year-old man faces trafficking charges after Hamilton police seized 296 kilograms of cannabis, worth $4.5 million, that was being shipped to Illinois. Officers found processed cannabis in the shipment, and the vice and drug unit investigated. They searched the warehouse and transport truck, and found 653 bags of cannabis, weighing about one pound each bag. Sophisticated way to conceal the drug, say policeOfficers arrested a 56-year-old Hamilton man, who is being held in custody. The estimated value of the cannabis there would be around $5 million US, police say.

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