🎙️ The Deadly Fake Beer: Canada’s Hidden Meth Pipeline

🎙️ The Deadly Fake Beer: Canada’s Hidden Meth Pipeline

🇳🇿 In March 2023, a 21-year-old man in Auckland, New Zealand, took a sip of what he thought was a Canadian beer.
🍁 It was branded “Honey Bear Beer,” complete with a maple-leaf logo and a bear on the can.
But inside wasn’t beer — it was liquid methamphetamine.

💔 Moments later, he cried out, “I want my mom … I’m dying.”
Five days later, he was gone.

His name was Aiden Sagala, and his tragic death exposed something far bigger — a global smuggling operation that’s made Canada the #1 exporter of meth to New Zealand.

🧊 What looked like a single accident turned out to be the tip of an iceberg.
Police traced the can Aiden drank back to 29 000 fake cans produced in Toronto.
Most were filled with real beer — but about 1 500 to 2 000 cans were secretly filled with liquid meth and shipped overseas disguised as alcohol.
They passed through customs 🛃 completely undetected.

🚨 When investigators raided a storage unit in Auckland, they found pallets of the same fake “Honey Bear Beer.”
The operation was converting the liquid meth into crystal form for sale across New Zealand — part of a supply chain that reached from Canada, the U.S., India, and Mexico.
In total, they uncovered 700 kilograms of methamphetamine — 💣 the largest meth bust in New Zealand’s history.

🌍 But it doesn’t stop there.
Investigators have since discovered meth hidden in maple syrup tins, in coconut water shipments, in kombucha bottles, and even in canola oil.
Smugglers are disguising drugs in anything that looks innocent — even real Canadian products.

🧴 In one case, six tons of “canola oil” were stopped before reaching New Zealand and Australia.
Criminals in Canada had bought thousands of containers from legitimate suppliers, filled some with liquid meth, and sent them out under trusted brand names.

🚢 Organized crime groups, including Mexican cartels, are using Canadian ports — especially Vancouver — as export launch points.
Some meth is made here in massive underground labs.
Others are imported into Canada first, then repackaged and shipped overseas.

🔬 Over the last two years, the RCMP has busted nearly a dozen large-scale meth labs, including one in Falkland, British Columbia, described as “university-level” in sophistication — capable of producing both meth and experimental synthetic drugs.

📈 Meanwhile, New Zealand’s meth crisis is exploding.
Wastewater testing shows use has doubled in just a year.
There’s no community left untouched.

⚖️ And yet — no charges have been laid in Canada against the exporters responsible for the shipments that killed Aiden Sagala.
Not one.

🇳🇿 New Zealand investigators say they’re frustrated — even as part of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance, co-operation has its limits.
They describe Canada as a “vulnerability” — a major hub where meth passes through with little consequence.

🕯️ Aiden’s death wasn’t just a tragedy.
It was a warning — a sign that international trafficking networks are hiding behind ordinary trade, using everyday products to move poison across oceans.

🍁 And while New Zealand mourns a young man who thought he was drinking beer,
Canada now faces a hard question:
How did we become a global exporter of meth — and why hasn’t anyone been held accountable?