Closing arguments heard in 99 kg Coutts cocaine smuggling case
LETHBRIDGE, AB – Lawyers on both sides have presented their final arguments to the jury in a significant cocaine smuggling trial.
Gurminder Singh Toor, 31, and Kirandeep Kaur Toor, 26, each face one count of importing and possessing cocaine for the purpose of trafficking.
On December 2, 2017, they pulled up to the Coutts border in a commercial truck as they attempted to enter Canada.
Officers with the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) found 84 bricks of cocaine inside weighing about 99.5 kilograms including packaging.