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Court case shows how cocaine traffickers got creative during N.L.'s COVID-19 restrictions

A central Newfoundland man has been hit with a 39-month sentence for his role in a creative cocaine trafficking scheme that saw kilograms of cocaine hidden so well inside a truck that investigators couldn't find it.

Court case shows how cocaine traffickers got creative during N.L.'s COVID-19 restrictions

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