A Canadian national has faced court after 11kg of cocaine was allegedly found in his luggage on Thursday.

The Canadian man, 38, was stopped for a bag examination after landing in Sydney Airport from a flight coming from the US on Thursday.

ABF officers found 10 vacuum-sealed packages of a white substance in his luggage, with initial testing returning an allegedly positive result of cocaine.

A Canadian national has faced court after 11kg of cocaine was allegedly found in his luggage on Thursday.
The Canadian man, 38, was stopped for a bag examination after landing in Sydney Airport from a flight coming from the US on Thursday. (Nine)

The packages weighed a total of 11.6kg.

AFP Detective Acting Superintendent Dom Stephenson alleged it was a “brazen attempt to smuggle cocaine into Australia.”

The man was arrested and charged with importing a commercial quantity of a drug.

A Canadian national has faced court after 11kg of cocaine was allegedly found in his luggage on Thursday.
The packages weighed a total of 11.6kg. (Nine)

He was remanded in custody and appeared in court yesterday.

He will re-appear in Downing Centre Local Court on February 12.

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