Fog Blog Maritimes News Log: Big Drug Bust In Tiny N.S. Town!:

What started as concern about the spread of COVID-19 in a small town on Nova Scotia's South Shore has turned into a major $34-million drug bust.

On July 17, local store owner Tim MacIntosh received a call that a boat carrying two people had entered Lockeport harbour and needed gas.

MacIntosh's small store in nearby Lydgate has gas pumps, so he got in his truck and drove to the wharf.

When he arrived and greeted the man and woman carrying gas cans, they immediately got in his truck, and he took them back to his store.

MacIntosh said they had an accent, so he asked where they were from. The man told him they were from a small town in Quebec but had been on the water for five weeks. He said their hometown had no cases of COVID-19.

"He said, 'We should be more than safe. Nothing to worry about,'" MacIntosh said.

While the couple may not have had the coronavirus, they did bring another kind of trouble with them.