Canada nabs 680 pounds of cocaine

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MONTREAL, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- More than 680 pounds of cocaine was seized in a shipment at the Port of Montreal, the Canada Border Services Agency announced Tuesday.

In a release, the agency said the cocaine was found Nov. 29 in a maritime container that originated in Bolivia.

The haul has an estimated street value of $14 million, the report said.

The report said the shipment was composed of 13,000 1-liter bottles of sunflower oil, 1, 236 of which contained cocaine "carefully blended with a liquid substance."

Border agents worked with Quebec provincial police in seizing and analyzing the bottles and the evidence is now part of a Royal Canadian Mounted Police international investigation.

The CBSA said in 2010 in Quebec alone, it made 1,864 drug seizures worth more than $150 million.

There was no immediate report of suspects on the sending and receiving ends.