13-04-2019 00:44 via vancouversun.com

Notorious B.C. drug smuggler arrested again

Less than a year after B.C. skipper John ‘Phil’ Stirling was released from a U.S. prison where he served seven years for cocaine smuggling, the controversial sea captain is back behind bars.
Stirling, 65, was arrested off the Oregon coast April 9 on a sailing vessel allegedly carrying 28 seven-gallon jugs containing liquid methamphetamine.
According to U.S. court documents, Stirling deliberately overdosed on fentanyl after U.S. Coast Guard boarded his boat.
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