The more I learn about this story, the more bizarre it all seems. Let’s take it from the top. U.S. Customs and Border Protection stopped a semi-truck trying to cross the Ambassador Bridge from Detroit into Canada. The driver was Canadian citizen Muhammad Shaikh. His story about delivering car parts just didn’t add up. Turns out the trucker had drugs on board–a lot of them.

The feds searched his rig and noticed multiple black duffel bags in the semi-truck’s sleeper. They were tucked under the bunk and scattered around the cab. And there were five of them. When investigators opened the bags, they found them full of vacuum-sealed packets of cocaine.

Here’s where things get odd. The packets varied in weight, but all contained cocaine. Added up, they held 240 pounds of the drug. Federal officials say that’s worth about $1.7 million. A pretty big haul for a truck driver. What’s more, Shaikh didn’t seem to know what he had.

Shaikh waived his Miranda rights and agreed to tell all in an interview that day. He said his Tuesday began like a normal day, with a run to Gary, Indiana, to load up his truck with auto parts. While waiting in line at the loading docks, he took the opportunity for a smoke break. He even volunteered that he was smoking weed. He claims at this point an unknown male approached him and “demanded” that he deliver packages to Canada.

A few things happened at this point. The man upped the deal, offering Shaikh $5,000 on delivery. He gave the driver a cell phone. Then he handed him five duffel bags, weighing nearly 50 pounds each. And Shaikh claims he took the bags and drove away, the reluctant smuggler. But I’m not sure I believe all that.

If Shaikh had truly been threatened into smuggling drugs, he should have tossed the phone out the window and driven straight to the nearest police station. If he was smuggling for profit, why would he settle for $5,000? He might not have known he was carrying over $1 million in product, but it’s pretty clear that 240 pounds of drugs is worth a lot.

Shaikh will struggle to support his story: Once he was captured, his burner phone was wiped remotely.

Shaikh is waiting for his detention hearing in a jail on the U.S. side of the border. His lawyer hasn’t responded to press requests for comment. Meanwhile, Detroit’s finest claims they seized over 2,000 pounds of cocaine destined for the border in the last fiscal year.