{"id":24351,"date":"2026-06-21T00:31:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T19:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/cocaine-hidden-inside-cheese-powder-box-indian-man-arrested-on-us-canada-border-says-he-didnt-know-about-the-drug\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T00:31:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T19:01:42","slug":"cocaine-hidden-inside-cheese-powder-box-indian-man-arrested-on-us-canada-border-says-he-didnt-know-about-the-drug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/cocaine-hidden-inside-cheese-powder-box-indian-man-arrested-on-us-canada-border-says-he-didnt-know-about-the-drug\/","title":{"rendered":"Cocaine hidden inside cheese powder box: Indian man arrested on US-Canada border, says he didn&#8217;t know about the drug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-131882330,imgsize-109248,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/indian-man-chandan-tayal-arrested-for-smuggling-cocaine-from-the-us-to-canada.jpg\" alt=\"Cocaine hidden inside cheese powder box: Indian man arrested on US-Canada border, says he didn't know about the drug\" title=\"Indian man Chandan Tayal arrested for smuggling cocaine from the US to Canada.\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"Indian man Chandan Tayal arrested for smuggling cocaine from the US to Canada.\">Indian man Chandan Tayal arrested for smuggling cocaine from the US to Canada.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>An Indian man was arrested with 60 kilos of cocaine at Port Huron in Michigan while he was on his way to cross the border to Canada. Driver Chandan Tayal was stopped by the CBP at the Blue Water Bridge and on inspection of his car, the officials found two suspicious boxes.<!-- --> Tayal told the investigators that those boxes contained wood pallets and cheese powder being transported from Wisconsin to Brampton, Ontario.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>55 shrink-wrapped bricks of cocaine were found in those two boxes.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>27-year-old Tayal claimed he watched teh company seal the truck, adding that he did not know about the boxes of cocaine, in which one of the vacuum-sealed packages was partially opened.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/>The incident took place in the early hours of June 11.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"12\"\/>Tayal was arrested and detained while the Marysville police K9 unit arrived and an officer positively alerted officials to the presence of narcotics.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"14\"\/>The first box had 25 sealed packages weighing 27.47 kilograms, while in the second box an additional 30 packages weighing 33.03 kilos were found.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"16\"\/>In total, about 60.5 kilos of cocaine were retrieved in the bust. Tayal is being held in the St. Clair County Jail as the investigation continues.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/us\/cocaine-hidden-inside-cheese-powder-box-indian-man-arrested-on-us-canada-border-says-he-didnt-know-about-the-drug\/articleshow\/131882299.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian man Chandan Tayal arrested for smuggling cocaine from the US to Canada. An Indian man was arrested with 60 kilos of cocaine at Port Huron in Michigan while he was on his way to cross the border to Canada. Driver Chandan Tayal was stopped by the CBP at the Blue Water Bridge and on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-latest-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}