BC Police Seek Interpol Notice for Return of Cocaine Smuggler Who Escaped to India
Published on December 13, 2023
Police in British Columbia are asking Interpol to post a red notice for the arrest and return of a Surrey man who escaped to India after being convicted of smuggling cocaine into Canada from the United States. RCMP say 60-year-old truck driver Raj Kumar Mehmi was sentenced in absentia by a B.C. provincial court judge to 15 years in prison in November after his arrest in 2017 for smuggling 80 kilograms of cocaine. A red notice asks member countries to help locate, arrest, and extradite a person to face criminal charges, and India is a member of Interpol. Police say the 80 sealed bricks of cocaine were hidden inside a truck owned and driven by Mr. Mehmi while he was at the Pacific Highway border crossing into Metro Vancouver....