DETROIT – Authorities stopped nearly 2,000 pounds of drugs from entering Canada from Michigan in two separate busts just hours apart.
Court documents revealed that about 1,000 pounds of drugs were discovered at the Blue Water Bridge in Port Huron, while another roughly 1,000 pounds were seized at the Ambassador Bridge in Detroit.
Methamphetamine at the Blue Water Bridge
At the Blue Water Bridge, an investigator with Homeland Security saw two semi truck drivers moving items between trailers at a gas station near the Macomb and St. Clair county border just before 12:30 p.m. on Sept. 11.
One truck was followed to the Blue Water Bridge, where Customs and Border Protection officers stopped it. A police canine reportedly alerted officers to bags filled with methamphetamine in the trailer…