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A Canadian resident with a murky past is now facing fresh charges for allegedly leading a drug-smuggling ring across the U.S.-Canada border — all while having previously served time for marijuana trafficking and narrowly avoided deportation thanks to “community support” and family ties. Once convicted in 2007, Gurtej Singh Smagh, aka Raj Smagh, was let stay in Canada in 2008, despite a history of criminal behavior, and now stands accused of smuggling tons of cocaine and meth weekly using farm trucks — even linked to the assassination of a Sikh leader. His extradition hearing remains shrouded in secrecy, but his record also includes assault and threats charges, one of which was dropped. This case exposes the tangled web of cross-border justice, where past leniency can collide with future danger.

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