An Air Canada employee has been charged in connection to alleged drug smuggling at Pearson
The employee allegedly attached luggage tags in the names of unsuspecting passengers to suitcases full of drugs
An Air Canada employee attempted to export more than 60 kilograms of cannabis through the supposed luggage of unsuspecting travellers at Pearson International Airport, the RCMP says.
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Two German citizens who were set to depart on a flight to Germany were taken aside by the Canada Border Services Agency and subsequently arrested after cannabis was discovered in their suitcases. It was later determined that neither of the passengers had actually checked the bags in.
It turns out that an Air Canada employee in the baggage room allegedly attached luggage tags with the passengers’ names on the suitcases, according to a notice published by the RCMP.
The two unsuspecting passengers were released without any charges.
A 32-year-old woman from Mississauga has been charged with possessing cannabis for the purpose of export and conspiracy to commit an indictable offence.
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Carly Lewis is a journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times and the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Wired, Interview Magazine, Pitchfork, Elle, and Maclean’s, where she is a contributing editor. Her work has been recognized by the National Magazine Awards and the Digital Publishing Awards. She reports on city life, culture—including what people do online—politics, art and crime. She received the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Award for “The Murder of Ashley Wadsworth,” an investigative feature about a Canadian teenager who was killed by a man she met on social media, published by Maclean’s.
