DELTA \u2014 Canadian border authorities have seized more than half a tonne of opium found hidden in industrial paper rolls in a cargo container in a Metro Vancouver port site. <\/p>\n
The Canada Border Services Agency says in a release that the discovery was made in January, when agents referred a container to an examination facility in Delta, B.C.<\/p>\n
The agency says the container was flagged based on information from border and intelligence officials in Canada and the United States.<\/p>\n
The agency says a detector dog team indicated the container held contraband, and an X-ray found nine of the 20 industrial paper rolls inside had “internal inconsistencies.”<\/p>\n
Officers eventually found about 520 kilograms of opium hidden inside 10 paper rolls.<\/p>\n
No information about possible suspects linked in the case has been released.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 23, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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