BURLINGTON, Vt. — Prosecutors say a Canadian man caught pulling a sled carrying more than 280,000 prescription pills across the border into Vermont has been sentenced to a year in prison. Authorities say 21-year-old Cedrik Bourgault-Morin of Quebec, was found with about $1.6 million worth of Xanax pills after he tripped a sensor while smuggling the drugs across the border in a sled on Jan. 13. Court documents said he was wearing white camouflage and pulling a sled that held a large duffel bag, which was also wrapped in white camouflage. Court documents have offered no details regarding where the drugs might have been headed. According to the Burlington Free Press, Bourgault-Morin did not speak any English and had no connections to Vermont.

Source: National Post August 24, 2016 02:03 UTC