The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) in Halifax, Nova Scotia (NS) detected and seized nearly 300 sealed packages of methamphetamine deeply concealed under a false bottom inside a wooden crate of solar panels, which were scheduled to leave Canada by sea.

The drugs weighed 299.7 kilograms and were detected by CBSA officers at the Africville Seasides Marine Container Examination Facility in Halifax, Nova Scotia, during an export examination of a marine container destined for the Philippines on January 9.

The seized drugs and all evidence were transferred to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), Federal Policing – Eastern Region, for further investigation.

The CBSA and RCMP are securing our borders by collaborating on investigations to disrupt illegal drug smuggling and combat organized crime.

"The Canada Border Services Agency is seizing drugs at our marine, land and air borders. With the RCMP and other law enforcement partners, they are disrupting transnational organized crime and making communities safer. I would like to commend everyone involved in this seizure," Gary Anandasangaree, Minister of Public Safety.