Canadian man arrested while pulling sled with 180lb of pills across US border

[cali]

Authorities say a Canadian man was arrested while pulling a sled carrying more than 180 pounds of prescription pills across the border into the US.

The US attorney’s office says 21-year-old Cedrik Bourgault-Morin was apprehended early on Wednesday after he crossed the border from Quebec along a railroad line into North Troy, Vermont.

Prosecutors say Bourgault-Morin was wearing white camouflage and border patrol agents were alerted to his presence when he triggered a sensor.

Prosecutors say agents found 300 vacuum-sealed bags of anti-anxiety Xanax pills in a duffel bag on the sled. They say the pills had a street value of $1.6m.

Bourgault-Morin was being held on Thursday in a Vermont prison. His attorney has not returned a call seeking comment.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/14/canada-sled-pills-xanax-us-border-vermont

[lame54]

1. when are we gonna build that wall...

and make the pharmaceutical companies pay for it

[FrodosPet]

3. Today it is Xanax! Tomorrow bootleg Anne Murray CDs!

If we don't stop this flood of illegal crossings, our nation will soon be covered in back bacon, poutine, Molson, and TimBits!

[jmowreader]

19. Better Anne Murray than Nickelback

[NightWatcher]

2. Gotta give him his props. Go big or go home, right

[cali]

4. No props from me. Easiest place imaginable to cross the border undetected and

this doofus manages to get caught.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

5. Yeah. Except for the sensors.

[cali]

9. They are far and few between.

I live here. Hint: Don't trek along the RR tracks.

[dixiegrrrrl]

16. I'm thinking...catapult OVER the border.

Yeah, that's the ticket.

Altho.....has no one thought of drones yet?

[NightWatcher]

13. He was towing a sled full of pills (prob on a few at the time) of course he would get caught

[cali]

14. Let me put it this way: a lot of drug smuggling there

Few are caught The border between the Northeast Kingdom and Canada is very porous.

[pinboy3niner]

7. He won't be winning the Xanaxarod this year. nt

[FSogol]

12. LOL. n/t

[Bigmack]

18. That is awful. So awful that I'm stealing it. nt

[lapfog_1]

6. Dude... sled? NOOOO... use a hovercraft.

guess he never watches myth busters.

[randome]

8. Sensors, huh? Sounds a lot cheaper idea than building a goddamned wall.

And I believe we already have plenty of them along the Mexican border. I'm sure Trump would simply say, "A wall is just a big mother-fucking sensor!"
[hr][font color="blue"][center]"If you're bored then you're boring." -Harvey Danger[/center][/font][hr]

[joeybee12]

10. Damn, there goes my Xanax...

It really does work.

[whatthehey]

11. Now that's a Canadian crime.

Sled.

Snow camo.

Frenchified name.

Selling our overpriced pills back to us because his country legally allows themselves to negotiate pricing whereas we pay ten times as much for the same thing.

Checks all the boxes. Should have brought some Cuban cigars too to diversify though.

[dembotoz]

15. i thought ted crud was at the debate

[bluedigger]

17. You would think someone with the ability to procure that much Xanax could come up with a better plan

Maybe not.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

20. This reminds me of a goof who broke into a warehouse

He got in through the roof, even used a ladder to get between the stacks without touching the floor, stole about fifty Sony Playstations. He was busted by the police pissing in the parking lot with his haul of playstations visible in the vehicle.