Following a day off, a two-week Sarnia trial into a $6 million Blue Water Bridge tractor-trailer drug bust involving cocaine and opium from July 2023 resumed Wednesday with the testimony of a drug expert.

Rene Valade, an RCMP constable, testified about where and how those two drugs are produced globally and how they make their way into Canada. He has seen duffel bags used as a way of importing and exporting the drugs, he said.

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A total of 50 bricks of suspected heroin, later found to be opium, and 40 bricks of cocaine were discovered in duffel bags hidden inside a truck that was sent in for an inspection at the twin-span bridge connecting Michigan and the Sarnia area on July 8, 2023. The bricks each weighed about one kilogram and were covered in various materials

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