TORONTO — Stuffed next to fruit and vegetable shipments or stashed into hidden compartments, smuggling cocaine into Canada via land looks to be a growing trend, the CBC reported this week.

The former mode of transport for drug smugglers used to be ports, CBC said, but that looks to changing.

It also might be a reason to keep a closer eye on your north-south lanes.

At least a dozen truckers in the Greater Toronto Area have been charged with smuggling drugs in recent years, the CBC report notes.

A Mississauga man has been accused of trying to smuggle $10-million worth of cocaine into the great white north, while another Windsor, ON., man began his trial Tuesday for trying to smuggle 69 kilograms into Canada.

“All the cocaine in Canada, pretty much, likely comes via Mexico at this point and time. And so, yes, we’re not as far away as we really think from illicit activity south of the U.S. border,” Richard Pollock, a prosecutor who has worked many smuggling cases, told the CBC.

Needless to say, smuggling cocaine is a dangerous side-gig. Back in 2009, two men were found dead in the trunk of a car, one of whom was a trucker waiting to go to court on smuggling charges.

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