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Friday, May 25, 2007 12:20 PM CDT
“Feds seize high-grade Canadian pot in eastern Iowa shed.”
By JEFF REINITZ, Courier Staff Writer

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “DELAWARE -— A metal building just outside Delaware was a waypoint for hundreds of pounds of high-grade marijuana headed for Chicago, immigration officials said.

Agents with the U.S. Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and state narcotics officers raided the building May 16 after intercepting a shipping container crossing the Canadian border.

They then arrested two Canadians and an American who allegedly picked up the pot after it was moved to Chicago.

Daniel Francis Berger, 40 of Hinsdale, Ill., and Canadians David Anthony Downing, 32, and Azar Berend Niekamp, 30, were charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States in connection with the drug operation in U.S. District Court in Cedar Rapids.

Agents seized 600 pounds of hydroponically grown marijuana produced in British Columbia, Canada, that goes by the street name “B.C. Bud,” according to court records.

“B.C. Bud” is more potent than traditional marijuana.”