Two arrested after sailboat arrives in Nova Scotia carrying suspected cocaine
HALIFAX — Two men are facing drug charges after more than 250 kilograms of suspected cocaine was found hidden on a sailboat, which arrived in Nova Scotia from the Caribbean as darkness fell Sunday night.
The Canada Border Services Agency says its officers boarded the vessel in Hubbards, N.S., at East River Marine.
“We were aware of it coming,” said Dominic Mallette, the agency’s acting director for Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador.
The Canadian-registered, 29-foot boat — called Quesera — arrived from the small Caribbean island of Saint Martin, he said.