-from theglobeandmail.com-

Buffalo (AP) — Three Canadians were arrested after U.S. federal agents seized about 27 kilograms of ecstasy, 515 kilograms of marijuana and about 13 kilograms of cocaine in a pair of arrests this week.

The bags of ecstasy tablets and marijuana were found Thursday when Terrence Helstern, 51, of Barrie, Ont., tried to cross the Peace Bridge into Buffalo, N.Y., with a commercial shipment of steel plating, according to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman. Mr. Helstern was charged with importing drugs.

At Rouses Point in northern New York, agents on Wednesday seized cocaine headed to Canada after stopping two cars trying to cross the Lake Champlain Bridge into Vermont. David Legault, 22, and Etienne Matuszewski, 21, both of Montreal, were charged with cocaine possession.