{"id":1066,"date":"2025-09-11T03:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T03:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elitecle.net\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2025-09-11T03:25:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T03:25:41","slug":"hello-world-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elitecle.net\/?p=1066","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton resident charged with drug importation"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<div class=\"mrgn-bttm-md\">\r\n<div class=\"row\">\r\n<div class=\"col-md-auto\">\r\n<div class=\"cmp-text\">\r\n<p>On July 28, 2025, Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) officers at the Coutts port of entry were conducting a secondary examination of commercial truck seeking entry into Canada from the United States. During the search, CBSA border services officers found a duffle bag containing nearly 67 kg of cocaine, and the driver was subsequently arrested.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>The Integrated Border Enforcement Team (IBET) in Alberta, a joint force operation between the RCMP Federal Policing Northwest Region, CBSA and Calgary Police Service, was notified, and a criminal investigation was initiated into the driver and the seized drugs.<\/p>\r\n<p>Trieu Thanh Ngoc Le (49), a resident of Edmonton, was arrested and charged with:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Importing a controlled substance contrary to section 6(1) of the\u00a0<em>Controlled Drugs and Substances Act;<\/em><\/li>\r\n<li>Possession of a controlled substance for the purpose of trafficking contrary to section 5(2) of the\u00a0<em>Controlled Drugs and Substances Act;<\/em>\u00a0and,<\/li>\r\n<li>Smuggling into Canada contrary to section 159 of the\u00a0<em>Customs Act.<\/em><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>Le is scheduled to appear at the Alberta Court of Justice in Lethbridge on July 31, 2025.<\/p>\r\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 28, 2025, Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) officers at the Coutts port of entry were conducting a secondary examination of commercial truck seeking entry into Canada from the United States. During the search, CBSA border services officers found a duffle bag containing nearly 67 kg of cocaine, and the driver was subsequently arrested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1069,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elitecle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elitecle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elitecle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elitecle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elitecle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elitecle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1124,"href":"https:\/\/elitecle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions\/1124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elitecle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elitecle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elitecle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elitecle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}