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From Afghanistan to Canada - Smugglers opened a channel for importing heroin to Canada from the Afghani territory of Kyrgyzstan and were discovered in March 2018.

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Tears of Allah - The liquid heroin they were moving was called Tears of Allah, due to its high potency and highly addictive nature.

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Canadians involved - People from Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Canada were included in the smuggling ring.

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Juice bottles on a truck - They loaded the heroin into juice bottles on trucks and shipped them to Toronto.

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Kyrgyz police - Kyrgyz anti-drug police discovered the scheme and arrested the Afghanistan and Kyrgyzstan nationals, but not the Canadians. 

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Soviet sub for Colombian cocaine - Strip club owner Ludwig 'Tarzan' Fainberg sold a Soviet sub to a Colombian cartel for $35 million.

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Smuggling to Canada - The plan was to bring cocaine to North America using the sub to bypass the American Coast Guard.

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1997 deal - The deal was made in 1997 and operated for some years before the masterminds were busted.

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Indictment - Drug trafficker Nelson Yester plead guilty to a 30-count indictment by the DEA and turned on his accomplice, Ludwig 'Tarzan' Fainberg.

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Panamanian jail - Ludwig 'Tarzan' Fainberg was in a Panamanian jail and a DEA agent leaked information about his submarine deal to an American filmmaker.

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Jailbreak - 'Tarzan' later broke out of the jail and told filmmaker Tiller Russell about his submarine deal from his home in Moscow.

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'Operation Odessa' - Tiller Russell named his documentary about the story 'Operation Odessa.'

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Encrypted Blackberries - A British Columbia man used encrypted Blackberries to communicate with people in the US and smuggle drugs across the border.

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MDMA, ecstasy, and marijuana - Using a fictitious company, the man exported MDMA, ecstasy, and marijuana to the US.

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Helicopters - He employed a team of helicopters to travel short distances across the border to make the drops.

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Caught with cocaine - His American counterparts were caught trying to send 83 kg of cocaine to Canada in exchange for the MDMA, ecstasy, and marijuana.

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Sugar babies on a cruise - Three Canadians plead guilty to smuggling $16 million worth of cocaine on a cruise, two of whom were sugar babies for drug dealers. 

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Multiple country cruise - Two women had their lifestyle paid for on a cruise with the cocaine. The drugs started out in Britain, went to Ireland, then went to the US, Bermuda, Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, and finally Australia.

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Sniffer dogs - Police with sniffer dogs located a total of 95 kg of cocaine in their rooms.

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Melina Roberge - Melina Roberge appealed her conviction, claiming she only went on the cruise to maintain her lifestyle and image online.

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Sentenced to eight years - After losing her appeal and being sentenced to eight years in prison on Wednesday, April 18, Melina Roberge began sobbing as the Australian judge decried her desire for likes on Instagram.

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High-risk travellers - The Canadian Border Services Agency and the US Department of Homeland Security identified the three Canadians as high-risk travellers before their arrest.

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Vacation - A Canadian man joined them on the cruise, and the trio pretended to be on vacation together.

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BMWs full of fentanyl - Fentanyl has been found en route to Canada in Comet cleaner cans, small packages through Canada Post, cargo shipments, and a stolen BMW.

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Fruit and vegetable shipments - A dozen truckers from the Greater Toronto Area have been charged with drug smuggling in the past few years. They often put cocaine into fruit and vegetable shipments.

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$10 million in cocaine - A Mississauga trucker was charged with bringing in $10 million worth of cocaine from California.

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Religious items - A New Yorker returning to the US from Canada said he was buying religious items.

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100 bottles of holy water - The man was carrying 100 bottles all labelled as holy water.

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Ketamine - Drug-sniffing dogs found the holy water to be Ketamine and the man was arrested.

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Sled - A 21-year-old man was spotted pulling a sled across the Quebec-Vermont border. When he was stopped, police discovered $1.6 million worth of Xanax pills in his sled. 

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Women - The Canada Border Services Agency says women are bringing in larger quantities of cocaine into Canada than men are, though they are doing it less frequently. 

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