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Natasha Hill didn’t realize the shortest route from her home in Grand Rapids, Mich., to Rochester, N.Y., was through a foreign country.
So after blindly following GPS directions, the then-36-year-old woman ended up driving her 2011 Toyota Camry across the Canadian border near Sarnia on a Saturday morning this past fall.
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Hill, with fellow Michigan resident Wisteria Walker in the passenger’s seat, initially blew past a Canada Border Services Agency booth at the Blue Water Bridge in Point Edward around 5:30 a.m. on Oct. 17 before being swarmed by officers at a secondary checkpoint. She told the officers there was cannabis in her car, but a border services superintendent found a different drug inside a yellow Gucci bag in the trunk.