Your Sikhs today: Blue Water Bridge edition

The Blue Water Bridge is a twin-span international bridge across the St. Clair River, linking Port Huron MI and Point Edward ON. It connects both the I-69 and I-94 in Michigan with the King's Highway 402 in Ontario for a straight and fast shot to Toronto, the de facto capital of Canuckistan.

The border crossing point into Canada, being notoriously under-staffed by the Canadian Border Services Agency, has become the entry point of choice for drug smugglers concealing cocaine, fentanyl and other mind-blowing substances in the nooks and crannies of big rigs operated by such companies as Diversity Truck Lines.

As you would expect, most of the truck drivers are students or graduates of the infamous Singh School of Truck Driving. Many of them are in the USA/Canada illegally. Many of them have driver's licences which are fake or obtained by bribery. Many of them do not speak or read English. Almost all of them, being Sikhs, have "Singh" as part or all of their names. All of them are a menace on the roads. 

Case in point: Postmedia reports that 133 pounds of cocaine headed for Canada were intercepted recently by the US Customs and Border Protection’s Office of Field Operations near the aforementioned bridge. CBP officers, after selecting a truck for inspection, discovered 55 shrink-wrapped bricks of a white powdery substance concealed within two cardboard boxes. The cargo was later confirmed to be cocaine. 

The drugs, truck and trailer have all been seized and the driver, an Indian national, is facing federal prosecution. His name was not released but your dollar gets  you 100 of Walt's if you can prove it isn't Singh. Send your bet to the usual address.

Another case in point: Yesterday, in a courtroom in nearby Sarnia ON, another turban-wearing trucker accused of smuggling $4 million in cocaine across the Blue Water Bridge testified that someone must have done something evil while he was in the washroom in a company yard for 10 to 15 minutes.

Ranjit Singh saw a mysterious man in a company truck yard while his trailer was unattended. Mr Singh, also an Indian national, pleaded not guilty this month to importing cocaine and possessing cocaine for trafficking.

On 26 April 2024, the CBSA discovered over 18 pounds of cocaine worth between $3.6 million and $4.8 million in two Home Depot boxes in a tractor-trailer on the Canadian side of the bridge.

Speaking through a Punjabi interpreter [See? What did I tell ya?], Mr Singh claimed he was told to go to a trucking company’s yard in Lansing MI and switch trucks with another driver. The switch never happened, but while he was there and the two drivers got food, he saw a third person in the yard neither of them knew. He couldn’t describe the man because it was dark at the time.

Mr Singh testified he went to the washroom there for 10 to 15 minutes [Perhaps he needed a laxative?] and couldn't see the back of his trailer during this time. When he returned, he didn't check the seals on his trailer before leaving. 

He didn’t dispute that drugs were found in the truck but claimed someone else put them there in the Home Depot boxes. Nor did he know about two duffel bags found in the truck. He also denied having financial troubles and swire that no-one [especially no-one named Singh or Wedding] approached him about bringing the dope over the border. The trial continues.