Canadian Caged In Meth Smuggling Scheme In U.S., Another Man Charged With Importing Morphine
Adedokun Waliyu 
A Canadian man has been jailed in the U.S. for 10 years after trying to smuggle massive quantities of methamphetamine into Australia.
Alan Davood, 41, formerly of Toronto, was in the States on an investor visa and living in Houston. According to Homeland Security, the Canadian citizen was smuggling the meth using cavities of designer concrete coffee tables, commercial floor scrubbers and massage chairs. He would arrange for shipment of the merchandise by “misrepresenting that legitimate companies were the shipping and receiving parties.”
Using burner phones, aliases, cash payments and communicating via encrypted messaging applications — to conceal his and other co-conspirators’ identities and unlawful activities.
After authorities searched his Houston apartment, he was arrested at Houston International Airport as he prepared to board a one-way flight out of the country.
The case was investigated by HSI Los Angeles, Los Angeles Border Enforcement Security Task Force (BEST) Maritime, HSI Toronto and the U.S. Internal Revenue Service.
Meanwhile, another Canadian citizen was arrested at the Lewiston-Queenston Bridge allegedly carrying a heavy payload of morphine into Canada as part of a “multinational conspiracy.”
Bashir Kasozi, 41, a trucker who may also be a citizen of Uganda, has now been charged with the importation of morphine and possession with intent to distribute morphine.
He faces 20 years in prison and has been ordered held without bail after officials determined he was a flight risk.
According to Homeland Security, Kasozi was driving a commercial truck with Ontario plates and pulling a trailer when he arrived at the Lewiston-Queenston Bridge around 7 p.m. on Aug. 23.
The truck’s manifest stated that Kasozi was transporting “five skids of paper products” to a tea company in Ajax. At an outbound inspection, Kasozi told a Customs agent that he had been in the U.S. for three days and had picked up the paper products at a plant in Westfield, Massachusetts.
Kasozi allegedly told agents he wasn’t carrying guns, drugs or $10,000 in currency.
At a secondary inspection, his truck and trailer were scanned by hi-tech radar that detected an anomaly in the nose of the trailer.
Inside the truck, border agents discovered an unreported skid with “62 brown taped packages.” One glass vial tested positive for morphine.
A press release said: “In denying bail for Kasozi, U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael Roemer wrote that evidence presented to him alleged that the trucker was ‘part of a multinational conspiracy to smuggle morphine from India, through the U.S., to Canada.”
He added that federal prosecutors provided evidence revealing that Kasozi “had smuggled morphine from the U.S. to Canada on a number of occasions.” The judge added that the trucker allegedly had “made as much as $500,000” from smuggling morphine.
