Breaking Ba-nada?

A drug syndicate that tried to smuggle tons of methamphetamine from Canada to Australia and New Zealand by hiding it in shipments of maple syrup and canola oil has been busted, authorities said Thursday.

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Authorities from the three nations said they had worked together for more than five months to unravel the elaborate scheme that was worth billions of dollars.

Australian police said they had intercepted four separate hauls of meth weighing more than six tons and filed charges against six men.

[Yikes. Kudos to law enforcement on both sides who put an end to this. One does have to wonder how much of the production made its way into the US. Perhaps border security is an issue on both sides of the country. — Ed]

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