16 arrested in cross-border marijuana bust
DETROIT (AP) — U.S. and Canadian authorities announced they had broken up a major drug-smuggling ring with the arrests Monday of 16 people on both sides of the border.

Two other people charged in an indictment unsealed Monday still were at large, officials said. Another man named in the indictment previously was taken into custody in Tennessee.

The alleged ring was based in a Toronto suburb and smuggled high-potency marijuana to various cities throughout the midwest and the northeast, U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Collins said. The group utilized the Ambassador Bridge and the Detroit-Windsor tunnel, as well as the Blue Water Bridge in Port Huron.

Among those arrested was the alleged ringleader, Trong Gia Nguyen, who is charged with conspiracy to distribute drugs and conspiracy to launder money.

U.S. officials are requesting that Nguyen and others arrested in Canada be extradited.

Arrests also were made in Michigan, Mississippi, Maryland and California, said John Arvanitis, assistant special agent in charge of the Detroit field division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.

Collins said the case was a great example of cross-border and interagency cooperation.

"Because of that cooperation we were able to infiltrate this organization," he said.

Officials said they had targeted the Toronto ring for the past year, making some arrests and seizing $5 million in drug revenue, 1,700 pounds of marijuana and 3,000 tablets of Ecstasy. On Monday, another $250,000 and a vehicle were seized, said John Gilbride, special agent in charge of the DEA's Detroit division.
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Man some cops kept a cut i'm sure.