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Trucking Company Owner Pleads Guilty to Drug Smuggling Ring

A sixty-two-year-old trucking company owner from Brampton, Ontario, has admitted to leading a major drug smuggling operation that moved cocaine and methamphetamine from the US into Canada. Guramrit Sidhu, also known as King, organized truck drivers to cross borders at spots like the Detroit-Windsor tunnel and the Peace Bridge, hiding drugs in commercial rigs. The operation was uncovered in Operation Dead Hand, with authorities seizing over five hundred twenty-three kilograms of meth and three hundred forty-seven kilograms of cocaine in one month of 2022 alone. Sidhu confessed to handling at least nine big shipments from 2021 to early 2023 and is the seventh person to plead guilty in the case. He faces a twenty-year minimum sentence, with a chance to transfer to a Canadian prison after ten years. Sentencing is set for July, and he could still face charges back home once hes done his time.

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