Heavy traffic at the Ambassador Bridge on Aug. 30, 2023.
A tractor-trailer driver living in Mississauga, Ont., at the time of his arrest at the Ambassador Bridge in 2019 has been convicted of trying to smuggle nearly 200 kilograms of methamphetamine into Canada.Heavy traffic at Ambassador Bridge is shown in an Aug. 30 file photo. On Friday, Mohamed Ahmed Abdirahman was found guilty of trying to smuggle nearly 200 kilograms of methamphetamine into Canada at the bridge in Windsor, Ont.
According to the decision, CBSA officers seized 196.7 kilograms of methamphetamine from inside the cab of a tractor-trailer on Dec. 24, 2019. Abdirahman, who lived in Mississauga at the time he was charged, was on a 14-day return trip to California for his Brampton, Ont.-based employer. The officers were wearing personal protective equipment during the search in part because the drug created an overpowering odour — "described as a smell similar to nail polish, which was irritating to the nose and eyes," Justice Bruce G. Thomas wrote in the decision.
The defence put forward alternate explanations of what happened, including the idea that someone else might have planted the drugs without Abdirahman's knowledge. Thomas, the presiding justice, found the Mexico trip, the communication with El Chapo and the Zack Moris alias were "suspicious" but unnecessary to support a finding of guilt.
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