73 kilos of cocaine seized in Sicamous traffic stop

Infotel is reporting that "Traffic cops pulled over a Surrey man on the Trans-Canada near Sicamous earlier this month and found approximately 73 kilograms of cocaine in the vehicle. Sicamous RCMP and officers with the Traffic Safety Unit and Impaired Driving Unit were conducting a joint enforcement roadblock on the Highway 1 near Malakwa on Oct. 8, according to a press release from police. Police stopped a 28-year-old man from Surrey at the roadblock and found roughly 73 kg of cocaine in the vehicle."

I'm thrilled about the bust but we're obviously missing some information here. It had to have been a tip but the police need a just cause to search the vehicle. Did they smell pot? Really? Was there some other reason police searched the car without a warrant? There had to have been.

The RCMP press release said the driver was a 28 year old man from Surrey but did not name him because he hasn't been charged but he was arrested and released on a promise to appear.

In 2017 the Revelstoke Review reported that "Colin Martin, an accused Sicamous drug smuggler who has already been found guilty of similar offences in Canada, lost his bid to avoid extradition to the U.S. to face drug charges there." Remember Colin Martin? Colin Martin was the helicopter pilot that smuggled cocaine across the border and got a free license to smuggle cocaine for 10 years from the DEA for ratting out rivals. Nothing shady going on here. Much.

In 2018 Colin was sentenced to 7 years in a US court for drug smuggling across the border. That's an insanely light sentence for the volume of drugs he was smuggling in the US. Normally US sentences are much higher. Rob Shannon got 20 years.