Friday, September 7, 2012

Trucker acquitted of Trafficking Cocaine

A Manitoba judge says she has reluctantly acquitted a man caught behind the wheel of a semi-trailer containing about $6 million worth of drugs.

Justice Shawn Greenberg says she accepts the ``blind courier'' defence of Kuljinder Dhillon, who was charged with possession for the purpose of trafficking.

Dhillon testified he had no idea 38 kilograms of cocaine had been stashed inside a compartment for a cross-country road trip.

Dhillon, a resident of British Columbia, was caught in 2007 by Manitoba RCMP at the weigh scales in West Hawk Lake while en route to Ontario with a large load of lumber.