Overview
- Border officers using X-ray at Halifax’s Africville Seasides facility found 1,178 packages hidden in flatbread and wrapped in carbon paper.
- Officials say the container carrying the shipment originated from the Dominican Republic.
- Health Canada confirmed the substance was cocaine weighing about 248.7 kilograms.
- RCMP identified importer Peter Pompeo of Montreal along with Taylor Bixby of Thorold and Zachary Daniel Ardizzi of Mississauga.
- The three were arrested and charged and are due in the Ontario Court of Justice in Newmarket on May 13.