Six Ontario residents are facing drug-related charges after more than 100 kg of drugs were discovered in fruit shipments coming into Canada.

The investigation began in August after Canadian border officers seized a marine container at a New Brunswick port that contained 19 kg of cocaine hidden in hollowed out pineapples.

Investigators were able to link the freight to a Toronto address.

Over the next four months, investigators identified the subjects linked to this activity and further drug trafficking.

Then in January 2012, officials at the Windsor-Detroit border intercepted two trucks, each containing 115 kg of marijuana. The drugs were concealed in packaging surrounding a shipment of watermelons.

Though it sounds bizarre, this is nothing new for investigators.

“We’ve seen everything. Smuggling is really only limited by your imagination. We’ve seen it come in computers, ceremonial daggers, bins of various fruits, body packing. It’s unlimited,” said RCMP spokesperson Michele Paradis.

In these two related incidents, the accused are 46-year-old Denise Edwards (aka ‘Pilgrim’) and 52-year-old Linval Brown, both of Pickering; 43-year-old Dexter Boyce of Toronto; 54-year-old Abdool Hakeek of Scarborough; 42-year-old Roman McInnis of Keswick; and 45-year-old Lancelot Henry of St. Catharines.

Police allege that these individuals are a group linked to both the watermelon and pineapple smuggling incidents.

The RCMP says the group also has ties in Jamaica, Costa Rica, Guyana and the U.S. Warrants are outstanding, and they anticipate further arrests.