Four charged after trying to smuggle 8 people in trunk across border
Posted Jan 9, 2025 09:49:44 AM.
Last Updated Jan 9, 2025 10:13:27 AM.
Several people have been arrested after police found they were attempting to smuggle eight people across the Canada-U.S. border in Cornwall.
A traffic stop by a number of policing agencies revealed that four people were trying to smuggle others from Canada to the United States in the back of a vehicle.
On Jan. 7, Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) and RCMP stopped the vehicle in the City of Cornwall travelling toward the border. Officers found eight people in the trunk and charged the driver and passenger under the Criminal Code.
Further investigation revealed two other suspect vehicles and two more people were charged.
Charles Edwards, 58 and George Tooker, 54, both of Akwesasne, Ngoc Dung Le, 52, of Brossard, Que. and Huu Huan Nguyen, 43, of Anjou, Que. have each been charged with conspiracy to violate U.S. law.
The accused have been released from custody and are set to appear in court on Feb. 25.
OPP and RCMP worked with Canada Border Services Agency, the Department of Homeland Security and Akwesasne Mohawk Police Service.
