“The Trap Maker” — Secret Weapon of Cross-Border Smugglers

A multi-million-dollar smuggling network moving from Mexico into the United States and then into Canada used a fleet of trucks with crafty, concealed hiding spots not even detected by X-Ray machines. Let me tell you about it.
The Mob Reporter here to introduce you to “The Trap Maker.” Well, we don’t actually get to meet him face-to-face, not yet anyway. Instead, we meet him through his handiwork, his artistry. A bit like Banksy, the famous anonymous street artist. No. Not really.
Technically, this is his alleged handiwork — because he was only arrested this week as part of the largest ever international drug probe in the history of Toronto, Canada’s largest city, a metropolis of 3 million people, the fourth largest in North America, behind only Mexico City, New York and Los Angeles. Toronto police unveiled the fruits of a seven-month long international drug probe this week. Seized during raids and search warrants were more than 1,000 kilos of drugs secretly being shuttled from Mexico into California, across the length of the United States and across a second border into Canada, where it was offloaded in Toronto for distribution. Police estimate its value at more than $61 million. Also seized was almost a million dollars in cash, 21 vehicles — including five tractor trailers and a Mercedes G-Wagon — and a Glock.
Project Brisa was chosen as the operation’s name because the first truck police caught was carrying a load of hairdryers. Brisa is Spanish for “breeze.” Toronto Police Chief James Ramer said the quantities being moved were “frankly staggering.”
Twenty people were arrested and two people couldn’t be found when police moved in. They remain fugitives at the time I’m making this: Both Toronto men, Scott McManus, who has a history of his own, and William Nhan.
During the investigation, police say they identified the man responsible for building the traps, whose evocative but unimaginative nickname was “the Trap Maker.” On June 22, 2021, police identified him as Jason Hall, a 43-year-old man from Surrey, British Columbia, on the other side of the country from the traffickers’ Toronto base. He has no known criminal record.
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[BeesUhLikeADaHoney]

Every bust the cops act like its some huge service to the community, meanwhile the average person buying drugs doesn't notice an interruption in service at all the only consequence is innocent people start getting drugs laced with fentanyl as dealers try to keep their profits up. Absolutely dumbfounded anyone thinks the war on drugs is anything but a danger to society at this point.

[con.troller]

So Canadian. Sixty million in drugs and one pistol.

"Sorry we caught you, eh."

[EricEric-neix]

I do the same thing in my kitchen to keep my cookies away from the kids.

[fakzR]

You're like the David Attenborough of crime documentaries.

[jed-henrywitkowski]

I once watched a documentary about smuggling across our southern border (USA) and one particular ICE agent seemed to enjoy the fact that he and his team absolutely destroyed a really nice pickup that was used to try and smuggle drugs through his POE.

[carpediem]

I remember the Black Mafia Family, aka BMF, had success with these trap cars for many years. Moving drugs and cash. Unfortunately for criminals, you have to be lucky all the time. Police have to be lucky only once.

[johncounts]

5:45
"From both thieves and police"
weird that he would repeat himself.

[andreasp.tavelis]

as a former PO i clearly know that every bust makes them more sophisticated, 100 kilos seized but 1000 kilos pass that's unfortunately the truth.The amount of profit is so high that is impossible to be stopped.. unless you make them legal and regulated.

[christopherrobin]

You think a kid on Christmas morning is going to wait to open his presents properly. Nope, they going to tear it open. Lol

[Abelsgarage_]

Plot twist: the guy who “ turned himself in “ was actually someone paid off by an organization to claim and take the fall of the Real trap maker so that the organization’s needs and distribution can still be made. The trap maker is probably still out there doing their thing …

[truescotsman]

i moved into a studio apartment in the 90s that was in a known drug house that was raided a month before i moved in. the new owner and tenants had no connection to the previous people that got busted. i found two hiding "traps" in this studio. they use diagonal tongue and groove siding in the entry way and there was a tv stand built into a wall. the tongue and groove has sections and one had a tiny hole you inserted a piece of wire into and the whole board came off the wall for hiding. the tv stand was a platform on hinges like a fireplace that lifted up from the bottom concealing a safe cemented into the ground under the house.

[bazabal]

People from Canada do enjoy their Mexican products “hecho en Mexico” 🇲🇽

[joeshmoe]

I bought a 1977 f 250 long bed from the side of the road and one day I heard a noise from underneath the truck and when I laid down to look for the rattle, I couldn't believe my eyes there were 3 big boxes on each side of the truck on the outside of the frame under the bed, I knew exactly what it was used for, and yes they were empty.

[prioris]

Just decriminalize and legalize drugs. Politicians and law enforcement will be very upset that no bribe money will be required.

[TracyA]

When I start my international drug smuggling operation I won't make the same mistakes with my traps.

[isuckatgaming]

Damn they are good, you gotta admire the ingenuity and the craft... And no I'm not talking about the police...Them.. i guess they just follow up on a talkative person..

[taitheguy]

How does the builder get in trouble? Not allowed to have a "safe" in your car. Shouldn't it only be illegal once it's filed with something illegal?
"Can you help me hide my illicit products"?... 😒C'mon. No way

[frankmurphy]

Snitches and wire taps was how this case was made since apparently they couldn't get it through dogs and border patrol and x-ray

[ilikemitchhedberg]

Curious is the trap-maker's art. Its efficacy unwitnessed by his own eyes.

[con.troller]

The "war on drugs" just makes the mob stronger. Same thing happened with alcohol Prohibition in the USA. It was just what the mob needed to export their European operations.