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00:04it's being touted as the biggest drug bust in canadian history and probably the most dramatic
00:10a story covering two continents a plane chase and up to a billion dollars worth of cocaine
00:16this was a big case i considered it the largest case i'd ever worked we did not know anything
00:21about the pilot 23 years for the pilot boulanger his name is raymond boulanger raymond boulanger
00:29well i don't forget it was a hell of a lot of fun let me tell you it was quite
00:33a ride
00:35i was involved in a lot of different operations operations supervised by the cia i used to think
00:43the cia were the good guys and then you start to realize the more you work for them we're not
00:47the
00:47good guys we're actually the bad guys i talked with pablo many times and then he was well into the
00:53cia
00:53they were all in bed with him cocaine that's when it got interesting i was considered one of the
01:01biggest traffickers at that time they asked me if i can help him and i did the cartels have a
01:11history
01:11of violence a wide trail of destruction and death bad people this was it's the far west it's all part
01:19of the game my grandfather said there's three ways you can live life you can lead you can follow
01:26or you can get the fuck out the way i prefer to lead
01:45the seizure in quebec may be the biggest ever the enormous value of the plane's cargo that was
01:51crammed in here that's just one part of the story this guy contacted me and asked me if i thought
01:56it
01:56would be possible to fly a large load of cocaine from south america to canada i said yeah of course
02:01it's no big deal the goal was to put 4 000 kilos of cocaine on one flight and that's it
02:09you're on your
02:09way we were at work we had just gotten there it was 8 30 or 9 o'clock something like
02:16that when we
02:17got the call from ottawa it was about a plane that had left columbia that was supposed to go to
02:22the u.s
02:23but the americans noticed it was actually headed to canada so i just pulled off to the right here
02:29and parked the airplane with the nose facing west and we got out of the airplane and started looking
02:33where the hell everybody was i'm standing here 300 clicks in the bush north of montreal and shit five
02:38tons of cocaine 20 below zero and nobody here i couldn't believe it it's insane i never saw anything
02:58i got a call from a gentleman here in montreal representative of the local mafia trying to get
03:05an aircraft that would be able to fly alone directly from columbia to canada and they had problems that
03:09they'd gone through a couple of pilots who couldn't do it they'd gone through a couple of attempts that
03:13failed so at one point this guy contacted me and asked me if i thought it would be possible to
03:18fly a
03:18large load of cocaine from south america to to canada and i said yeah of course it's no big deal
03:28john raymond boulanger he was approached by the montreal mafia to carry out a cocaine delivery
03:33operation from colombia those people had already sponsored two operations over the previous months
03:43and they had failed they didn't want the importation to fail like in previous attempts so they were
03:53looking for a pilot that was capable of getting the job done
04:07we're considered myself and the group that i'm in to be in the top four percent of the best pilots
04:13in
04:13the world well i asked for 50 million dollars
04:18and they said yep no problem
04:21it's just not a game for amateurs you know it's very dangerous and you have to be highly skilled
04:25or just somewhat a little bit crazy maybe along the edges but you know there's not that many pilots
04:31that have the skill to be able to do that because you know the the people had tried and said
04:38they said
04:39it was impossible it couldn't be done and i said that's ridiculous of course it could be done there's
04:43no such thing as impossible it just takes a little longer to do the impossible that's all
04:53but they had tried it and a couple of times and they failed so that becomes a question of competence
05:07i went up myself and examined the runways i took two of their people with me i stopped at casey
05:11on
05:11the way down and i told them that's where you're going to be this is where you're going to be
05:15casey we used to fly there a lot land there and go fishing in the river beside it
05:22during the cold war the canadian armed forces built military installations in the north of canada
05:29one of them was the casey runway it was an emergency landing strip it was very very long
05:36and isolated in the middle of nowhere for operations like the one that raymond was leading
05:41to import drugs it was perfect he also had to have intimate knowledge of the landing conditions
05:52at casey to be able to land a plane that large with that type of a load on it he
05:58had to be familiar
05:59with that particular runway and and what preparations were necessary to make it successful
06:08so it's our belief that mr bolanger was probably the sole architect at least for the transportation
06:14aviation transportation part of this project
06:23there's always confidence that everything's going to go well you know we we plan things and we do
06:27the strategic thinking so nothing is done haphazard here the idea was to do a test flight
06:34first to make sure it could be done successfully okay so they did a first flight with a king air
06:40and 500 kilos of cocaine i did the first flight successfully no problem at all it went quite well i
06:55left
06:56columbia and over casey i just spiraled landed at the airport and there was my guy and we unloaded i
07:02took
07:02some fuel on and we split we were there i think probably you could say 20 minutes but you know
07:08some
07:08say 15 some say 18 but let's say 20 minutes
07:16i was back in colombia in less than 23 hours one less than one day
07:30the goal eventually over the following weeks was to fly in with a much bigger load
07:374 000 kilos of cocaine in one flight to transport 4 000 kilos of cocaine they needed a bigger plane
07:49than
07:49a king air he decided on a convair the sponsors bought the convair from a company called avesca in colombia
08:01avesca was a cargo company based out of el dorado airport the main international airport in bogota
08:06it was owned by a gentleman by the name of luis carlos herrera lascano
08:12luis carlos herrera was a pilot he started in the cocaine business back in the 70s and in the early
08:2080s
08:22avesca was flying loads of cocaine the connection was there the conspiracy was there
08:28the cocaine planes were there so we knew avesca was the transportation air wing for the cartels
08:37i had done flights with convoirs many times before doing the casey one i knew that was a perfectly
08:42good airplane for that convoir 580 was modified with general motors turbines on it very powerful
08:48engines it's quite capable of carrying considerable overload the main example and what we would see is
08:55that they would try to increase the capabilities of the aircraft they wanted to carry larger loads
09:01heavier loads for a greater distance and one way that they were able to go the greater distance was
09:06to add additional fuel to the plane to me it looked horrifying in my view it was a very risky
09:13proposition
09:14and one that would take a very unique pilot to challenge that type of a risk or maybe you just
09:22weren't
09:22uh quite as rational as a regular pilot would be i've done several flights to mexico with converse 580
09:31it was an excellent aircraft for that
09:40so typically what they would do is when they were flying cocaine they would disguise the plane by removing all
09:46the data tags
09:47the identification tags were like the serial number on your automobile a lot of the guys would rent
09:52their aircraft out they just change the registration numbers on the aircraft for the flight well they
09:57don't want to identify the aircraft directly so when they send an aircraft out for that the serial numbers
10:02are removed the camouflage airplane you can't really it's hard to detect the actual ownership
10:07so november 12 1992 about five days before the infamous casey flight raymond boulanger went to see
10:16his friend guy bernier on the south shore of montreal oh boy oh my gosh
10:25i had a company out in saint jean we did maintenance of hydro quebec planes convair 580s
10:33one day raymond came to take a look in the hangar there was a conveyor that was almost a replica
10:41of
10:42the one he was going to use to fly to casey as a joke i put it on one that
10:45was pulled out of commission
10:46i saw it in the hangar in saint jean the aircraft would be decommissioned it was just being parted
10:51in pieces had nothing left of it and the registration had been cancelled obviously but the letters were
10:56still there so far more it was easy to take the letters and put them on another plane the letters
11:02just stuck in my mind that's all they said well give us a canadian registration it just came to my
11:06mind that well i'd go stick that on it it's a bit of a joke really sick sense of humor
11:10i thought yep
11:12that's right there was a first meeting with the montreal mafia sponsoring the operation at the
11:24champ de mars metro station i met the representative for the mafia montreal mafia they're sicilian those
11:31ones if you go use the other ones calabrese they're italians but the sicilians are sicilians they like
11:37they don't like to be called italians but i guess it was a mix of all of them in there
11:40they had calabrese
11:41he had sicilians whatever so i don't even know the one who i met if he was a calabrese or
11:46or a
11:47sicilian but here's definitely the italian mafia
11:52yeah yeah i met with the representative of the sicilian mafia the champ de mars but he brought along
11:58with him the guy they had hired to do the pickup the man that was going to wait for him
12:04on the casey
12:05strip with his accomplices was christian de chen i wasn't happy about that because i don't like meeting
12:13people i don't need to he started to tell me about his prowess and he'd done this and he'd done
12:18that he'd
12:18that and i told him quite frankly i don't give a who you are you know i don't want to
12:22know you from
12:23that point on there was a lot of tension between the two men
12:33well i didn't really know him i had no idea who he was you know and i'm pretty quick judge
12:37of
12:37character and you look somebody in the face you can tell whether he's a fraud or not you know and
12:40this guy was full of from the get-go so and i saw him when we were arraigned in uh
12:47latuk when
12:48they hauled us up to charge us and he was in the cell there the other one well we didn't
12:55talk to
12:55him i didn't walk by colombian city anywhere near him they had to keep him in the cell the columbians
12:59would have killed him they would have jumped him right there
13:15i went to pick up the aircraft for the flight around five o'clock in the afternoon in bogota they
13:19flew the aircraft to the desert the guajira the runway we use in the guajira it was a runway we
13:24had used
13:25very often in the past when we take off with large aircraft heat gets up to 110 degrees in the
13:31daytime
13:32you can't take off at 100 degree temperature there's just no lift in the air but we always manage
13:49somehow
13:50raymond had three accomplices on board for the casey flight my copilot was juan carlos montez restrep i
13:57had jose gonzalez was the electrician and jorge rojas was the airframe and engine specialist
14:05so that was the crew the copilot got 70 it gets 75 000 for a flight like that and the
14:11fellas in the
14:11back get 50. the first vehicles that arrived are the ones with the barrels so they load the barrels
14:24on board there's iron men everywhere there's two or three hundred of them and the last thing to arrive
14:29is a truck full of drugs then they all get in line and chubbity choo and they take all the
14:33drugs out
14:34and then they place them on the side 4 343 kilos to be exact well yeah they would have liked
14:41to put
14:42more but that was it any more like 200 kilos more i might not have got it off that runway
14:47it was that
14:49critical when you think of the amount of drugs on that plane believe me most people thought he
14:55wouldn't be able to take off yes of course it's dangerous it's what you're paid for you know no danger
15:02everybody'd be doing it wouldn't be a big deal would it yeah we knew that yeah it was going to
15:07be a
15:07really tricky flight my scheduled departure was around 9 9 15 well you'd take all the runways you
15:13need every inch of it and then you just pull the aircraft off slightly you let it float off itself
15:18and that's it you're on your way so the aircraft did a wonderful job
15:28took off the early just like nothing
15:39as soon as his plane left he got a message that he was being tailed he was being followed
15:50well well i got a call right away telling me that i had a tail
16:05one of the things that i'm still challenged today was to understand how he thought he could have
16:10outrun the surveillance particularly when it included the southern florida caribbean area and
16:17basically uh noran shit he was being followed by the american air force along the coast
16:23the whole time jesus there's no way to come up with plan b
16:29but if he knew he was being followed i don't understand why he wouldn't have
16:33diverted to an alternate site or even returned back to the jungle well heading back was hard on
16:38the question it was far too late they called me right away and said that they had scanned and
16:41picked up the the slick who had just taken off from panama and i said okay cool that's when i
16:46decided
16:46to opt a few more uh longitudes to the east that delayed the flight a little it also made him
16:54cross
16:54a violent storm north of bermuda typical north atlantic storm rough wind and ice you get your ass kicked it's
17:05kind of rough that was your average north atlantic storm ice strong winds freezing rain you name it
17:14it's a mishmash of a bunch of things very windy and bumpy you know you're in deep when it gets
17:19bumpy
17:20and the plane does this there's turbulence lots of it well the columbians had never seen a north
17:25atlantic storm much less because i don't think they'd ever been out of columbia a little scared yeah
17:31particularly the co-pilot thought the airplane was going to come apart uh this kind of weather
17:35is very unforgiving when people are incompetent we were in there for about an hour and then all of a
17:42sudden you just fly out of it and all the years all smooth all of a sudden so it's quite
17:45a change
17:46it's all of a sudden you're just you just like you go in the madhouse you boom boom bippity bop
17:50and
17:50you're tossed all over the place and then you're out oh yeah you can get up and go in the
17:58back we have
17:58our side lunch with us and everything we have a little table set up and everything in the back
18:02yeah you have a lot of time to relax you're just cruising along at altitude heading in one direction
18:07so there's not much going on and not long after that is when we spotted the uh the canadian fighter
18:12jets
18:22a convair twin engine plane took off from columbia a few quick phone calls and two cf-18s from goose
18:29bay labrador were up in the air but he followed me all the way down and i said oh that's
18:34not going
18:34to last very long for you buddy so the lower he goes the faster he burns up his fuel he
18:39left and the
18:40other one got closer and we were just timing how long it was going to take for him to run
18:44out of
18:44gas yeah we were timing it how long 10 minutes 15 nah eight minutes eight minutes one of my engineers
18:51won the bet it took 12 minutes he was supposed to buy lunch when we got by back to columbia
18:55but
18:56we didn't get back to columbia so i just paralleled the river and kept the aircraft at high speed and
19:01down so the other jet pulled right up beside us flew around us made circles all around he went around
19:07the
19:07plane two or three times and he got in front and then he made his way here made signs like
19:11that
19:12to go down and i just waved at him and said i'm going forward it was already critical he was
19:18about
19:18to run out of fuel so the other guy decided that was it was critical so he just peeled off
19:23and away he went
19:26they spotted the airplane over new brunswick but because of low fuel the air force led to get away
19:31the military pilots landed in frederickton to refuel the suspicious plane got away from the police
19:38and army yeah that's all part of the job it's no big deal i mean we get intercepted all the
19:43time
19:44it's no big deal he must feel that he's got a lot of luck in his life and the fact
19:49that he's still here
19:50today uh i'm not sure of the word i don't want to use nonchalant the nonchalant pilot
19:59mr boulanger takes an extraordinary amount of risk and has obviously had some success up till this
20:05point with that risk had he succeeded i'm convinced there would have been many more flights to casey
20:12canada it was time to head to casey but he didn't want to fly through american airspace
20:22if you fly over the united states without permission you're intruding in american airspace
20:26wherever you go they'll come and get you don't so what he did was fly north along the new brunswick
20:33main border during that time he was flying a very low altitude about 100 feet above the treetops
20:48we don't transmit on our radios ever if you transmit a radio signal they can pick
20:53they could detect your position immediately so we don't transmit make no noise
21:08approach straight in the runway i said i didn't make plan on flying around taking a look at the scenery
21:13so i approached the runway from far out flat out at low altitude and headed straight in
21:20and i remember when i reversed the props to slow the airplane down it was just big
21:24white cloud and we just disappeared in the big white cloud
21:30and then we started looking around where the hell is everybody nobody here like a big wtf
21:39big surprise nobody here the evening news with suzanne laberge ladies and gentlemen good evening
21:48this morning the american fbi signaled the presence of a suspicious airplane flying over the atlantic
21:54approaching nova scotia
22:02on november 18 1992 i got to the detachment i was stationed at as usual
22:08we were at the office we got in at 8 30 or 9 o'clock something like that we got
22:13a call from ottawa
22:17we didn't get much information a plane had left colombia and was headed toward the u.s
22:22but the americans noticed it was actually headed toward canada
22:28so we dispatched all our personnel uh teams of two all of the provinces detachments were called on
22:35in gas bay set hill and everywhere all of our rcmp officers were going to check every runway the plane
22:41could land on we left that morning on a military helicopter because i knew about casey i was convinced
22:49that if this was really happening they would land at casey it's the best place to land a mile long
22:56asphalt runway
23:04so i just pulled off to the right here and parked the airplane with the nose facing west
23:09and we got out of the airplane and started looking where the hell everybody was
23:13and there was nobody here i see all the tracks truck tracks and trailer tracks and skidoo tracks and
23:18whatever like there's been a lot of activity there but there is nothing there right now so we knew if
23:23somebody had been there for all the time where the hell they were now i had no idea what the
23:30i'm standing here 300 clicks in the bush north of montreal and shit five tons of cocaine
23:3420 below zero and nobody here i couldn't believe it it's insane i never saw anything that stupid
23:46when raymond got off the plane and realized christian deschenes and his associates weren't
23:50there it was a race against the clock raymond knew he had to get out of there quickly at the
23:56same time
23:57the police knew that a plane had landed somewhere with cocaine in it officers had no idea where it was
24:02but they were in a rush to find it at the time of the casey incident i had two sets
24:12of duties at the
24:13rcmp i was part of the criminal intelligence squad in montreal and i was part of the tactical intervention
24:20team that morning around 9 a.m the head of my tactical team wanted us to meet as soon as
24:29possible
24:30at the office because there seemed to be an airplane coming in from colombia that had disappeared
24:38we needed our help to trace it
24:52i was on my way to fix a machine at the two and a half mile mark about all of
24:57a sudden i saw a big
24:58plane it was coming down in compression there was black smoke coming out of the back i thought damn
25:02it it's in trouble i decided to go see what's happening with the plane big plane like that we
25:08never seen one land there went out on the highway beside there and i hitched right down to the village
25:15to go make a phone call see if we can get some phone calls in because we didn't have any
25:19cellular
25:19phones here at that time took a walk onto the little road that's over here i waited and i saw
25:24a
25:24vehicle coming so i flagged him down they had gotten off the plane by the time i got there
25:29so i asked him what's going on he said the plane wasn't functioning well and we really needed a phone
25:45so
25:46a pilot with three colombians that's rare it's a little fishy right he's looking for something
25:52he was trying to find a phone i brought him to a phone i'm a good samaritan so i offered
25:57him a lift
26:05drove us down to the village in casey so i had to go down there and i went to the
26:08depender
26:11i dropped them off there then i went inside to tell them that the people i picked up needed to
26:17use the phone they talked to tijan hudon tijan hudon was the owner it was set in his ways he
26:23grew
26:23up in casey he never left casey so he was kind of the mayor of the town because there wasn't
26:33one
26:34he wasn't a bad guy but when he started drinking it could last four to five weeks
26:42and we made phone calls and i couldn't reach anybody in montreal was trying to find out where
26:46the hell these people were nobody was answering their phones so i wasn't very impressed with that
26:57you think somebody could have been monitored the stupid phone at one point you know but no
27:02no they totally screwed it up from the get-go never seen such a bunch of incompetent
27:06nineties in my life idiots the bozo in charge of it decided that it was time to leave and he
27:13left at
27:137 25 in the morning i would strongly recommend that he doesn't ever cross my path or come
27:17anywhere near where i am because he will disappear
27:28and i phoned an air taxi company they were looking for a place to get another plane so they called
27:33up in
27:34the tick
27:37you know one of my dispatchers working the morning shift uh just come in he was a little edgy when
27:42he
27:43came in he told me ivan i just got a phone call from casey they need a plane right now
27:47to leave
27:48casey so they needed to get to montreal quickly i was gonna wait till the airplane arrived grab my
27:54colombians get the pilot out of the plane without him seeing me yeah if he'd taken off too bad for
28:00our pilot but he would have gotten off the plane i don't know how though yeah he would have stated
28:07casey
28:07put him in the conveyor we'll leave him there and uh take four or five bales and a couple of
28:13my
28:13colombians and get the hell out of there with his plane let the cops find the other guy there let
28:17them
28:17figure that one out the old man from the depender with his pickup drove us back up to the runway
28:25and the three colombians sat in his truck waiting
28:34and i walked out on the runway waiting for the aztec to arrive
28:37by that point we were on the runway two jets air force f-18s came buzzing over the treetop
28:45that noise scared the colombians and they took off with the guy's truck i don't know what the hell they
28:50think they were doing because he had no idea where they were and you're talking that was pushing
28:55can they've never been they've never seen colds like that before and the guy wondered what the hell
28:59is going on i'm sure tijan hudon wasn't okay with all of it so he takes off and i'm standing
29:04here all
29:05by myself the colombians are gone and i'm looking at the airplane i said i couldn't believe it it's five
29:09tons of cocaine in the darn thing and i stand out here on my own and i said just this
29:14is not possible
29:16it was i was just stupefied
29:22at stone consolidated we made paper for newspapers and tijan called me all of a sudden
29:30he was vulgar god damn it the colombians left with my pickup truck i said i'd go look around
29:37i looked around the camps at the bottom of the hill there was a camp on a sand mound once
29:43i got
29:43down there i saw tijan's truck in the ditch yeah they tried to get away but on the other side
29:49of
29:49the camp they drove into the ditch and they went into the woods on foot i called tijan and told
29:54him
29:54i found your truck i didn't touch it he told me the plane was full of drugs so i thought
29:59oh
30:04when we got to casey the plane was at the end of the runway so we landed when we got
30:10there and saw the
30:11convair it was bigger than what he had been told but uh thankfully we had the letters the identification
30:17letters when we saw it we didn't know if the drugs were still in there or if they were already
30:22gone
30:23that's why we decided to go after the pilot and his crew so we got back into the helicopter and
30:28followed the road along the woods
30:32so anyway after all that rigmarole i went back to the highway started hitchhiking again
30:36and a guy came by picked me up and off we went went down he took me down to the
30:41stone console camp
30:46we followed the road we could see the consolidated office
30:50and we got off because i had to call my superiors to check in with them we didn't have communications
30:57the guy my forest worker showed up with raymond bolanger so raymond asked to use the phone so i let
31:06him make a call i went outside i tried again to contact the stupid uh number in montreal we can
31:12get
31:19anywhere all of a sudden the helicopter landed at the end of the camp there was corporal pelty
31:26we landed there and uh we went in to meet the pilot
31:35so i made my way to the office and i saw someone on the phone he was sitting at the
31:39desk and making a
31:40call i was on the phone and the guy looked at me said we need to use the phone i
31:44said i'll be
31:44finished in a second and i said who are you he said i'm the i'm the rcmp i asked who
31:49are you he said
31:50raymond boulanger i'm the pilot of the airplane i'm the pilot of the airplane he said you're under
31:54arrest you know well i asked him to specify what plane he said the plane on the runway the one
32:00that
32:00landed i said cool here you can use the phone now hereby that was it 18 years of flying for
32:06the drug
32:06cartels ended here right here he was done for yeah he'd been caught you always think that you won't get
32:13caught it's being touted as the biggest drug bust in canadian history and probably the most dramatic
32:23a story covering two continents a plane chase and up to a billion dollars worth of cocaine the enormous
32:30value of the plane's cargo that's just one part of the story another part is where it happened
32:35casey quebec a remote little community that police say is now the site of the largest drug
32:41bust in the country's history i'll say it like that guy you never see casey on maps but now thanks
32:46to this maybe one day it will show up on one we got a call from the head of our
32:57team corporal barry
32:58he said listen we just found the plane it's in casey we'll wait for you get over here
33:03you know such an important seizure and making those arrests that's a dream come true for an officer
33:17working in drug enforcement you know but uh we had to go back to the plane to make sure the
33:23drugs
33:23stayed there they were left there unsupervised sergeant rivard left with mr boulanger we went back to the
33:32airplane in the meantime we called the montreal office because they had asked us to wait for
33:54the plane ronnie didn't think it was a good idea but i told them we had to just to make
33:59sure that
34:00everything was there
34:05it was there
34:09all of it was there the plane that had come from colombia was carrying over four tons of
34:15cocaine the rcmp guy told me what it was worth it was pure cocaine it was worth 150 bucks per
34:23ounce
34:24that was a lot of money's worth
34:35and they all started arriving from all over the place the army and everything else and
34:41the whole show went on with machine guns on each side of the plane there were armed police officers
34:47and it was a huge deal uh that's when they told me you never know what can happen some people
34:53had
34:53lost money because of the bust that was their fear that commandos would show up and just bomb the camp
34:59cartels are powerful
35:03so when we got there we were shocked we could see fresh tire marks made by a truck
35:12since they were fresh we figured the truck had been waiting for the shipment there
35:22deschenes and forza were supposed to be at the end of the casey runway when the plane was landing
35:27to get the drugs but as we know they left sooner they went back to montreal so when he got
35:35uh contact with his bosses they told him what the where are you oh whoa the airplane wasn't coming
35:40nobody told you the airplane wasn't coming get your ass to hell back up there
35:43so he turned around he went back up in a pickup truck him and another guy
35:48up north like that the one disadvantage for organizations is that there's only one road
35:57around 2 30 more rcmp guys showed up they got an econoline with their 12 gauges through the
36:04windows looking for the colombians we went a little further south that's when i saw that the footprints
36:11going into the woods had been erased with some branches one of the colombians tried to erase their
36:15footprints in the ground in the snow by using branches that wasn't really effective because you
36:20could still see the trail even if you can't see your footprint so not too bright we went into the
36:26woods and followed the trail the prints looked fresh and all of a sudden the prints stopped and there
36:33was a hole they took off in the forest and after they found a little sort of like a little
36:37cave type
36:37thing and they were all huddled in there trying to keep warm they were almost frozen to death one of
36:43them was in hypothermic shock if we hadn't found them that night they would have been dead by morning
36:51after i was arrested they brought me back at one point to the stone console and then they picked
36:55them up around four o'clock in the afternoon the hell do you think you were going what the hell
37:00was all
37:00that about do you realize that you're in a country you've never been here you don't speak the language
37:05you haven't got a clue where you are geographically speaking and where did where were you planning on
37:10going exactly you know i didn't know they weren't happy with that but anyway the co-pilot was a bit
37:16of an idiot so the other said we didn't want to go we didn't want to go i said okay
37:21it doesn't matter
37:22right now i said you know you could have died out there they wanted to strangle the son of a
37:32bitch after dinner another rcmp guy showed up he said carol you have to come light something up for
37:39me we're going to search john hudo's truck all right so i parked the economy sideways in the middle of
37:46the road and let the truck up i stayed in the bus and let the guy do his job all
37:52of a sudden a really
37:53nice pickup truck showed up it looked brand new it was shiny like a mirror when you're working trucks
38:00get dirty this one was spotless i flashed the headlights and the rcmp guy came i said those
38:09guys didn't look like jesus's children they had shady faces he said he'd go check it out
38:16he went to go see them and they said they were coming back to fix two machines at the two
38:21and a
38:21half mile mark they said we work for console we're here to fix two machines no and i said i
38:29knew all
38:29my employees trucks if one of them got a new one i always knew about it right away they were
38:35arrested
38:35and charged there's nothing to think you know just deal with the situation ah you know okay what's next
38:50you know he didn't look like a guy who had just been arrested for smuggling the biggest quantity of
38:57cocaine in canadian history i found it rather odd calm smiling cooperative i should have handcuffed him
39:07but i didn't i was supposed to but i didn't i spent 37 years working at the rcmp in quebec
39:16i have
39:17never seen anyone like him what are you gonna do you know he's nothing else you can do you can
39:23stand
39:24here and scream and fume and fart you're there the deal is done you know that's your that's it again
39:29the
39:30jig is up you're over you deal with it i'm gonna get arrested i'm gonna get charged and that's it
39:34so deal
39:35with it and get it over with as quickly as possible he seemed to accept the situation he was arrested
39:41and he knew he wasn't going to get himself out of it
39:56so this is what we know what we're talking about is three tons of cocaine worth over a billion dollars
40:09i got a call one day that the canadian authorities had captured a convert 580 in casey canada
40:20and when i first heard it i go canada they're going up to canada i knew they were going everywhere
40:24else
40:25looked at it i go yeah okay they'll do anything we arrived in quebec to identify the plane it was
40:33pretty
40:33obvious that it was most likely one of a vesca's planes one of herrera's planes i told chuck to
40:39work i think we have something here that's what really got me going i never thought i'd see him in
40:46custody after that time period the sale of aircraft from the united states to colombia dropped off
40:53considerably they still would use aircraft but not to the degree that they had before the casey incident
40:58you take every victory you can get and this was quite a victory at the time
41:06the seizure and the fact that everyone involved was being convicted it was definitely a really big
41:13accomplishment it was a dream come true for everyone on the drug enforcement squad it's fun
41:17it's like in the movies when nothing goes wrong
41:26the way i look at it you win some you lose some that day i lost day one so big
41:32deal
41:34that's the only one i ever lost
41:39casey is probably the biggest bust i ever worked on in my entire career
41:43it's definitely the biggest drug importation in canadian history
41:50the seizure in quebec may be the biggest ever we determined that there were 4 323 kilos of cocaine
42:00worth 2.7 billion dollars in total close to three times more than we thought
42:05the biggest cocaine importation in this country's history
42:09four individuals will respond in court to all sorts of charges
42:16by the time they decided to move us all down to the prison was about three or four o'clock
42:20in the
42:20morning one person per helicopter if you're going to put all of us in one helicopter would have been
42:24the same thing but they had to write the big show it was the apocalypse it was like in the
42:29movie in
42:29vietnam it was the same helicopters they used back in vietnam too he had squad teams on the roof and
42:34things all over the place the lights on and the newspaper and the media there and the helicopter's
42:39coming in you know they're getting a big show like that six suspects three canadian three colombians
42:44were arraigned in court this evening in natruc armed to the teeth about 30 royal canadian mounted
42:49police and certes quebec officers created an impenetrable barrier putting in place the highest
42:55security measures but then again you got to give it to the poor police the poor guys they got to
43:00get out
43:00and play with their toys now and then you know and they never really get an opportunity they really
43:04shoot at somebody or get all their gear and actually go into action so it must be a bit
43:09frustrating for them i think our biggest concern was securing the perimeter we took it seriously
43:15when we got there there was tons of people already the room was packed there was people
43:18standing everywhere it's like a big party to avoid talking and going to trial and revealing who
43:23hired you people plead guilty and tell us nothing so the organization just keeps moving forward and
43:29on and on and there you go and you don't tell you have contractual agreements you know you can't
43:34divulge that information because they'll they'll come after you if you compromise situations they'll
43:40come after you and they're they're ruthless they'll kill you we pled guilty that was it it was over
43:46we got to leave we didn't want to stay there any longer than we had to we got it over
43:49with and got
43:50out of there narcotics trafficking transport conspiracy importation that was the only charge i got
43:56the crown wasn't going to just hand out a light sentencing it was out of the question the sentence
44:05had to reflect the gravity of the offense i got 23 years and my crew got 20 years each as
44:13far as the
44:14sentence goes i feel no pity i think that 23 years well if it were up to me i would
44:20have given more than
44:21that but it's the first time i got arrested for drugs in all the times i've been flying drugs
44:25and i wouldn't have got caught that time if the italians had been there doing their job i wouldn't
44:29have got caught today in the schwinnigan courthouse surprised four of them pleaded guilty the judge
44:37sentenced of three colombians to 20 years in the quebecer raymond bonnager who was the pilot was
44:43sentenced to 23 years yes i'm very pleased i think that the sentence is appropriate and fair and
44:49given all the circumstances yeah there's nothing to freak out about it's just a sentence in front
44:55of a judge it's no big deal you know what they did with judges in colombia you know what i
45:00mean you
45:01either walk away or boom the system didn't put you in there you put yourself in there so deal with
45:06it
45:06that's all part of it what else is there to say just get on with it deal with the sentence
45:13you know
45:14you went in and you did it do your time now sit so he got a 23-year prison sentence
45:24but people
45:25aren't going to remember the actual sentence they brought us from the cell downstairs up the stairs
45:32and when they opened the door there was a corridor there i couldn't count it was a whole maze of
45:37journalists click click and taking pictures and stuff like that and the colombians and other guys
45:41are all hiding their faces what are you pussy don't care i'm not gonna hide my face i'm not ashamed
45:46of
45:46what i do so i just winked at them and that was it i saw raymond just like i'd always
45:53known him
45:53he was a charmer even in handcuffs he had a nice smile on that was the raymond boulanger i knew
46:00my sense of humor what are you gonna do he was boastful he liked it he really did he liked
46:07getting
46:07the attention he would have been a good movie star i could have flipped the bird at him i didn't
46:14my
46:15mom said that's not right yeah so you caught me you caught me big deal you know there's that's all
46:21that's all right donna cona is the largest penitentiary in quebec inmates have committed
46:35violent crimes murders attempted murders drug importation organized crime it's really really
46:42a dangerous place it's scary it's violent you got some pretty happy duty criminals and stuff in there
46:48and not all murderers got rapists lots of those but you know whatever you know the time i was here
46:55i saw seven murders it isn't known but the police are after him because his halfway house has not heard
47:02from him you know you don't want to give me parole i'll parole myself
47:36i saw him
47:37and i saw you
47:37i saw you
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