U.S. authorities recently intercepted a convoy of late-model pickup trucks pulling trailers in New York state with more than 270 kilograms of Canadian-grown marijuana headed for Florida, U.S. court documents allege.
The Feb. 5 bust was part of a multi-agency operation that included surveillance and cellphone wiretaps.
The operation, headed by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), tracked the movements of a motorboat across the St. Lawrence River and the departure of vehicles from the Mohawk community of Akwesasne, which straddles the Canada-U.S. border about 120 kilometres southwest of Montreal.
The convoy was eventually intercepted by New York state police on Hwy 87 heading south toward Lake Placid, N.Y., with Florida as the ultimate destination, according to an affidavit filed by the DEA.
The bust comes as the U.S. inches toward removal of marijuana from the list of controlled substances. The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill late last year to push the effort forward. The proposed change is expected to gain traction in a Democrat-controlled Senate.
New York and Florida are also moving toward legalizing the recreational use of marijuana, which has been legal in Canada since 2018.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in January that he planned to legalize and tax marijuana in the state by the end of the year. In Florida, state legislators…
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U.S. authorities recently intercepted a convoy of late-model pickup trucks pulling trailers in New York state with more than 270 kilograms of Canadian-grown marijuana headed for Florida, U.S. court documents allege.
The Feb. 5 bust was part of a multi-agency operation that included surveillance and cellphone wiretaps.
The operation, headed by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), tracked the movements of a motorboat across the St. Lawrence River and the departure of vehicles from the Mohawk community of Akwesasne, which straddles the Canada-U.S. border about 120 kilometres southwest of Montreal.
The convoy was eventually intercepted by New York state police on Hwy 87 heading south toward Lake Placid, N.Y., with Florida as the ultimate destination, according to an affidavit filed by the DEA.
The bust comes as the U.S. inches toward removal of marijuana from the list of controlled substances. The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill late last year to push the effort forward. The proposed change is expected to gain traction in a Democrat-controlled Senate.
New York and Florida are also moving toward legalizing the recreational use of marijuana, which has been legal in Canada since 2018.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in January that he planned to legalize and tax marijuana in the state by the end of the year. In Florida, state legislators…
