A big drug seizure at the port...............More than $21 million dollars in cocaine confiscated.
Don Collins of the Canada Border Services Agency says there were 170 kilograms or 350 pounds and it goes for 35 or 36 thousand dollars a pound on the street.
He says it arrived in the two separate shipments on May 29th and June 5th and in both cases the drugs were seized from marine containers from Guyana, South America.
Police call Saint John a gateway for the drugs that were destined for the Toronto area where 8 arrests were made.
