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A four-legged member of the Canada Border Services Agency has helped make one of the largest drug seizures ever at the Thousand Islands bridge crossing.

Detector dog Shaggy sniffed out nearly 100 kilograms of cocaine in a trailer on Oct. 5. The four “undeclared” items were found by the Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever after border agents referred the tractor-trailer’s driver to a secondary inspection of his commercial vehicle, the CBSA said Tuesday.

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CBSA spokesman Chris Kealey said Shaggy and his handler work regular shifts at the border, but agents called in the dog specially to search the load after becoming suspicious the driver was hauling something that shouldn’t be there.

The drugs were found among the tractor-trailer’s load of paper, Kealey said.

The CBSA said the four packages contained 98.8 kilograms of what it suspected to be cocaine. The drugs and the driver of the truck were turned over to the RCMP.

RCMP and CBSA won’t give a value for the drugs, citing policy.

RCMP have charged Zbiigniew Czuprynski, 49, from Laval, Que., with importation and possession of cocaine along with smuggling under the Customs Act.