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A Quebec truck driver who was arrested at the U.S. border this month after a dog named Scooby sniffed out cocaine in his trailer is considering a plea the next time his case returns to court in New York.

Early in the morning of Dec. 7, Kanesatake resident Jason Nelson was driving a truck registered in Quebec as it approached the U.S border at Derby Line, Vt. He was about to cross into Canada through the town of Stanstead in the Eastern Townships when U.S. Border Patrol agents pulled him over for inspection despite him claiming his trailer was empty.

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According to an affidavit filed in Nelson’s court case, a specially trained dog named Scooby detected drugs inside a custom-made compartment and border agents pulled out 142 brick-shaped packages of a white powdery substance that later tested positive as cocaine.

Nelson was arrested and was charged with conspiring to distribute the 166 kilograms of cocaine found inside his truck. He has been detained in the U.S. since. According to a letter signed by both the prosecutor and his defence lawyer that was recently entered into record at the U.S. District Court in northern New York, Nelson has consented to a two-month delay in the case because “the parties are engaged in discussions regarding a possible plea, which would obviate the need for an indictment.”