Stoned, To Go: Border Guards Find Cocaine in Stow n’ Go Minivan

The Canada Border Services Agency owes at least a small thank you to Dodge for advertising the you-know-what out of their Stow n’ Go seating system as a familiarity with the system led to a sizeable drug bust at a Canadian border crossing.

49-year old Scott Powers and 55-year old Diane Powers raised suspicion by carrying too much luggage for the supposed one-day trip to Grand Forks, BC they had embarked on, and CBSA agents quickly noticed something awry with the Dodge Caravan they were driving: Although an apparent Stow n’ Go model, the vehicle’s seats seemed to be incapable of folding into the floor-mounted stowage bins. Upon closer inspection, CBSA officers found the trio of typically easy-to-access on-floor storage areas replaced by electronically operated drug smuggling compartments containing 83 1-kilogram packets of cocaine. Valued at $3,500,000 CDN, the drug shipment has landed the pair, both residents of Washington State, in prison pending the court’s decision on their charges of Importation of a Controlled Substance and Possession for the Purpose of Trafficking.