Trial for couple accused of drug smuggling begins
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A jury trial has begun for a husband and wife who are accused of trying to smuggle drugs into Alberta more than three years ago.
The Court of Queen’s Bench trial for Gurminder and Kirandeep Toor began Monday at the Yates Memorial Centre, where jury trials are being held to ensure social distancing during the COVID pandemic.
The couple was charged Dec. 2, 2017 after a man and woman hauling a commercial load of produce from California to Alberta were stopped at the Coutts border.
Border officers searched the cab of the truck and found 84 bricks of cocaine weighing 99 kilograms, considered at the time to be the largest cocaine seizure recorded by the Canada Border Services Agency in Alberta’s history.