Between January 1 and July 10, 2025, the CBSA seized a total of 1,164 kg of cocaine originating from the United States, alongside 514 kg from other countries combined.For the first time, Indians have been arrested by the Canadian law enforcement agencies on charges of drug smuggling. In June this year, six Indo-Canadians were arrested by the Peel Regional Police as a transnational cocaine trafficking ring was dismantled that used to smuggling bricks of the illicit drug into the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) through commercial trucks crossing from the US. The police seized 479 kg of cocaine worth CAD $47.9 million (approximately Rs 299.3 crore), and two loaded semi-automatic firearms were seized from them. The accused were in the age group of 27 to 44 and hailing from Mississauga, Brampton, Toronto, Caledon, Hamilton, Georgetown, and Cambridge. They were identified as Hao Tommy Huynh, 27, from Mississauga; Sajgith Yogendrarajah, 31, from Toronto; Manpreet Singh, 44, from Brampton; Philip Tep, 39, from Hamilton; Arvinder Powar, 29, from Brampton; Karamjit Singh and Gurtej Singh, both 36 and residents of Caledon, Sartaj Singh, 27, from Cambridge, and Georgetown resident Shiv Onkar Singh, 31.On January 14, 29-year-old Komalpreet Sidhu of Winnipeg, the capital of the province of Manitoba, was arrested and 406.2 kg of methamphetamine, approximately four million illicit doses valued at over CA$50,780,000 was seized following the examination of a commercial truck at the Boissevain port of entry in southern Manitoba. Again in January this year, 35-year-old Sukhwinder Dhanju of Brampton in the Greater Toronto Area was arrested by CBSA for attempting to smuggle cocaine into the country. A commercial truck driver, Dhanju, was referred for a secondary inspection of his vehicle when he arrived at the Queenston-Lewiston Bridge port of entry in Niagara-on-the Lake, Ontario. Then the border services officers discovered 202 brick-shaped objects, which tested positive for cocaine with a total weight of 233 kg.In November last year, Gaganpreet Singh Randhawa was arrested as part of a massive takedown of Canada’s largest illegal drug lab by a specialised RCMP unit and 54 kilograms of fentanyl, 390 kilograms of methamphetamine, 35 kilograms of cocaine, 15 kilograms of MDMA, and six kilograms of cannabis were seized. On December 4, 2023, a commercial truck driver Manpreet Singh (27) of Brampton, Ontario entered Canada at the Blue Water Bridge port of entry in Point Edward, Ontario, and was referred for a secondary examination.During the inspection of the trailer, border services officers discovered boxes containing 52 kg of cocaine and later arrested him.
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