Authorities: Guy Smuggled $1.6M in Drugs Into US on Sled

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By Newser Editors and Wire Services
Posted Jan 15, 2016 2:27 PM CST
Authorities: Guy Smuggled $1.6M in Drugs Into US on Sled
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Authorities say a Canadian man was arrested while pulling a sled carrying more than 180 pounds of prescription pills across the border into the United States. The US attorney's office says 21-year-old Cedrik Bourgault-Morin was apprehended early Wednesday after he crossed the border from Quebec along a railroad line into North Troy, Vermont. Prosecutors say Bourgault-Morin was wearing white camouflage and Border Patrol agents were alerted to his presence when he triggered a sensor. Prosecutors say agents found 300 vacuum-sealed bags of anti-anxiety Xanax pills in a duffel bag on the sled. They say the pills had a street value of $1.6 million. (More Vermont stories.)

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