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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Canada, U.S. Police Bust Major Cheese Smuggling Ring
2012-09-29
The things people think of!
[An Nahar] Canadian and U.S. authorities have busted a cross-border cheese smuggling ring that brought Can$200,000 worth of mozzarella into Canada undeclared and without paying duties.

Four men, including two Canadian coppers, were foiled in the caper to also distribute the dairy products -- as well as chicken wings and pickles -- to pizzerias and other restaurants in southern Ontario for an estimated profit of Can$165,000, Niagara Regional Police said.

They each face several charges including conspiracy, smuggling and breach of trust.

A conviction carries fines and possible jail time.

Constable Derek Watson told Agence La Belle France Presse: "Most people have been chuckling about the arrests (in online postings), but the (police) chief is taking these crimes very seriously."
Posted by:Fred

#12  To hell with Tupac: who murdered Biggie Small akaNotorious B.I.G.?
Posted by: borgboy   2012-09-29 19:11  

#11  It's not the mother rapers/father stabbers that worry me, it's the father rapers.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2012-09-29 18:17  

#10  And they gave me the hairy eyeball!
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839   2012-09-29 16:54  

#9  And yet the killers of Tupac remain at large...
Posted by: tu3031   2012-09-29 16:40  

#8  Ah...this finally explains the missing maple syrup. Everything is clear now.
Posted by: Shinter Javirong9154   2012-09-29 15:24  

#7  The things people think of!

Seems to happen every time a market gets distorted by government meddling. It's almost a pattern!

And yes, I'd hate to be sitting on the Group W bench, telling the boys I was popped for cheese-napping.
Posted by: SteveS   2012-09-29 12:32  

#6  Value the wholesale goods half US retail

Maybe less, if they "fell off the truck".
Posted by: Pappy   2012-09-29 11:18  

#5  $165K profit on $200K market value? I call bullshit. It is next to impossible to mark up the price of drugs / step on coke enough to get those kind of profit margins.

It's actually not that unreasonable. Some imported foods in Canada can carry retail prices 3x those charged for the same retail goods in the US. Value the wholesale goods half US retail and the profit at Canadian retail and you'd have approximately the margin described in the story.
Posted by: AzCat   2012-09-29 10:10  

#4  That the evidence, Muldoon?
Yeah, sarge...and it's delicious!
Posted by: tu3031   2012-09-29 02:22  

#3  $165K profit on $200K market value? I call bullshit. It is next to impossible to mark up the price of drugs / step on coke enough to get those kind of profit margins.

It isn't even that difficult to make your own mozzarella - salt, water, milk, citric acid, Rennet / tablet and that's about it.
Posted by: Raj   2012-09-29 02:11  

#2  To paraph ALICE'S RESTAURANT > D *** NG IT, I told all them Mother-rapin', Father-stabbin' criminals at the Recruiting Station that I was arrested for smuggling Cheese-n-Wings into Ontario.... AND THEN THEY ALL MOVED AWAY FROM ME.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2012-09-29 00:18  

#1  Red alert, men, red alert, dey be cheese-nappin' + pickle-nanigans afoot.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2012-09-29 00:11  

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