Lemon truck driver acquitted of cocaine-smuggling charges

Lemon truck driver acquitted of cocaine-smuggling charges: "truck driver has been acquitted after 83 kilograms of cocaine was found hidden in a shipment of lemons aboard his tractor-trailer.
Jaininder Singh Dusanjh was arrested Dec. 12, 2007 when he entered Canada at the Pacific Highway border crossing.
During an inspection of his vehicle, an officer with the Canadian Border Services Agency had noticed plastic when looking through one of the side holes of a box containing Sunkist lemons.
Tearing open the cardboard, she found the first of 83 one-kilogram bricks of cocaine wrapped in food saver wrap.
Officials estimated that the drugs were worth between $1.9 million and $3.2 million if sold at the kilogram level, with the value increasing substantially if sold at the ounce or gram level.
Dusanjh, 45 years old at the time of the trial, was charged with importing cocaine into Canada and possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking"