The Berrien County Sheriff’s Department is working with the Drug Enforcement Agency after a major cocaine bust on I-94 this week.
Sheriff Chuck Heit tells us deputies stopped a semi near mile marker 34 on Monday after the department got a tip it was hauling drugs. Inside the trailer was 123 pounds of cocaine, or about 50 kilograms of the drug, with an estimated street value of $1.5 million. Was that a record for the county?
“So I can tell you for Berrien County, it is, and especially in at least the last 25 years,” Heit said. “So there may be another one throughout the state, but for Berrien County, that is definitely one of the largest seizures we’ve had.”
Heit says the semi was brought to a secure location to be searched thoroughly.
The sheriff commends his deputies for acting on the “be on the lookout” advisory and searching the semi. Its driver, 22-year-old Sukhraj Singh of Canada was arrested and taken to the Berrien County Jail. Heit says the sheriff’s department is working with the DEA to determine the right charges to pursue and to decide whether the case should be prosecuted locally or at the federal level.
