Low-flying helicopter used to smuggle illegal cannabis from Canada to U.S., police say – By Adrian Humphreys (National Post) / Sept 9 2020
Four men were arrested and a helicopter, truck and trailer were seized after six search warrants were executed in a joint Canada-U.S. probe that spanned 16 months
A helicopter from Quebec, flying low to the ground to avoid detection, was used to ferry Canadian cannabis across the border into the United States in an illegal gun importation and drug exportation operation, the RCMP say.
Four men were arrested and a helicopter, truck and trailer were seized after six search warrants were executed in Ontario and Quebec in a joint Canada-U.S. probe that spanned 16 months.
It began from a chance sighting near the border.
It was about 8:20 p.m. on April 9, 2019, when a U.S. Border Patrol agent spotted a helicopter hovering low over a parking lot in Beaver Island State Park. The park is on Grand Island, N.Y., just a kilometre across the Niagara River from Fort Erie, Ont.
The helicopter quickly left, remaining at a low altitude, suggesting it did not want to be tracked by radar.
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