Penticton Western News - Cocaine smuggling brings four-year jail sentence

Penticton Western News - Cocaine smuggling brings four-year jail sentence: "Lee Myers was sentenced by Judge Anne Wallace to four years for his “lower rung” role as a drug mule importing a controlled substance.
On May 5, 2009 Myers was driving a Dodge Caravan at the Chopaka border crossing near Keremeos. Asked by his cousin, Debra Lynch, to drive the van across the border, the pair were stopped by a U.S. Border Patrol agent on Nighthawk Road. They were told to use the Osoyoos border crossing to re-enter Canada as the Chopaka one was closed. Agents then decided to follow the van after noticing Lynch was nervous and realizing they had stopped the very same vehicle a month earlier. Canadian officials searched the vehicle as it attempted to make its way over the border crossing in Osoyoos, discovering hidden floor compartments containing 31 kilograms of cocaine with several pairs of children’s shoes scattered over the 28 wrapped packages of drugs."