Santa Monica Police Dept: Agents with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's ICE Homeland Security Investigations and several local police departments said they followed a Canadian man after he landed at LAX airport from Toronto s Pearson Airport on January 5, which led them to a suspected drug house in North Hollywood and a warehouse and tractor trailer in Valencia, which is about 50 km from Los Angeles, according to The Star. Inside they discovered a locked safe that the Los Angeles County Fire Department had to cut open, revealing cocaine and cash inside and two Toronto men pleaded not guilty to drug trafficking charges in Los Angeles after police there raided a warehouse filled with romaine lettuce, parsley and a locked safe containing more than 47 kilograms of cocaine and about $2.4 million U.S. in cash. Around 10 p.m. last Thursday, the multi-agency task force swooped down on the house, truck and warehouse. Outside the storage facility, they found a tractor trailer being loaded with romaine lettuce and parsley, according to Sgt. Saul Rodriguez of the narcotic squad of Santa Monica Police Department. As
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