Told Border Officials Any Drugs Were His After a 66-year-old Minnesota woman was detained at a Manitoba border crossing on allegations of heroin trafficking, customs officials reportedly received a call from her son saying any drugs they found belonged to him. An audio tape of Janet Goodin's bail hearing on April 27 records Crown attorney Kathleen Tokaruk telling provincial court Judge Lee Ann Martin about the call from Alan Goodin, Janet's son, saying "he was upset with the fact that his mother was being detained at the point of entry. He indicated that whatever drugs that were found in the vehicle belonged to him and not his mother." [continues 484 words]
Daughter's Vehicle 'Torn Apart' At Border Not long before Janet Goodin endured 12 days in jail because of a faulty drug test, her daughter's vehicle was "torn apart" by officers at a different border crossing, another daughter says. Janet's daughter Tina Goodin, who lives in Buffalo Point, Man., said her sister Angela was interrogated for five hours at the Roseau border crossing "not too long" before April 20, the date Goodin was stopped at the Sprague crossing. "They just tore apart the whole vehicle," Tina said. As an explanation, border officers told Angela they were simply carrying out a random search, Tina said. [continues 474 words]
They're Right 99 Per Cent of the Time, Official Says THE erroneous drug tests that sent Janet Goodin to jail are accurate more than 99 per cent of the time, the Canadian Border Service Agency says. "False positives occur infrequently -- less than one per cent," Lisa White, a communications agent with the agency, wrote in an email. She said the agency collects data on the performance of its drug-detection technologies and performs "service" on them when necessary. "However, CBSA officers are trained to understand any/all limitations of the CBSA's detection technologies and that is why these tests are used only as an indicator during their examination," White wrote. [continues 341 words]
