CANADA-CATTLE GET HIGH.
A 40-year-old British Columbia man has pleaded guilty in federal court in Seattle to trying to smuggle more than 1,700 pounds of marijuana into the United States in the floor of a cattle trailer.
The U.S. attorney’s office said Edwin R. Fuller of Cloverdale , British Columbia , pleaded guilty Wednesday to possession of marijuana with intent to distribute.
Court records say when Fuller tried to cross the U.S.-Canada border last Feb. 17 at Sumas, Wash., pulling a trailer with about two dozen head of cattle, Customs and Border Protection inspectors noticed a discrepancy in the trailer floor. They made him unload the cattle at a holding area and found the marijuana, with an estimated street value of $5 million, concealed under the floor.
At sentencing on July 17, Fuller faces a mandatory minimum five years in prison and a maximum 40 years and $2 million fine.
