Man acquitted in $5 million Alberta-U.S. cocaine trafficking case

A truck driver at the centre of a $5 million cocaine seizure at Alberta’s Coutts border crossing in 2016 has been acquitted of drug trafficking charges because there was reasonable doubt as to whether he knew about the drugs, a court has found.
Parmjeet Singh Sandhu, from Ontario, and Jasmail Singh Sander, from British Columbia, were both charged with drug trafficking after border officers discovered 83 one-kilogram packages of cocaine stashed in various locations around a semi truck