Heroin smugglers admit guilt
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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 29/03/2011 (5370 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
THE game is over for two women caught smuggling a huge stash of heroin inside wooden Monopoly boxes disguised as Christmas gifts.
Winnipeg resident Amanda Kazubek, 30, pleaded guilty on Monday to trafficking the drug just as her jury trial was set to begin. Harpreet Kaur Bains, 30, of Surrey, B.C., admitted to a charge of importing. The pair will be sentenced in June under a joint recommendation from Crown and defence lawyers, court was told. They remain free on bail but will be given jail terms.
A third accused, Tracy Lynne Pongratz, 31, of Stony Mountain, had her charges stayed.
RCMP arrested the three in December 2008 after border guards at the James Richardson International Airport seized two kilograms of heroin buried inside the board-game boxes, which were disguised and shipped as Christmas gifts destined for Winnipeg.
It was heralded as the largest-ever seizure of heroin by RCMP in Manitoba. The drugs, worth about $250,000 on the street, originated in the United Kingdom and were being sent to Manitoba with a final destination of Surrey, B.C. , police said.
Agents with the Canada Border Services Agency grew suspicious of the packages and opened them on Dec. 8 after they arrived by air. They refuse to say what caused the gifts to attract attention.
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