Kilograms of opium seized after police track package from India to Ottawa
Posted Oct 31, 2025 10:54:22 AM.
Last Updated Oct 31, 2025 10:55:28 AM.
One Ottawa man is facing charges after border patrol officers found several kilograms of opium in a shipment from India.
According to a press release by Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), officers with Canada Border Services Agency detected opium while examining a package from India at Air Cargo Operations in Toronto. Officials from the provincial capital contacted OPP in Ottawa, saying they found four kilograms of the illegal drug.
Opium is used to make heroin, police explained in the press release.
Last week, officers with Ottawa police, OPP and the border agency executed a search warrant at the package’s destination, on Meadowlands Drive in the nation’s capital.
One person was identified and later arrested.
As a result, Sunil Kumar, 33, is facing charges of importing a Schedule 1 substance and trafficking a Schedule 1 substance.
He was released from custody and is expected to appear in an Ottawa court on Dec. 2.
