Crossing to the US from Canada with a drug charge?

The border guards will run your names through the system, and it will pull up your friend's drug conviction. As I always say when someone asks a question like this, 9/11 changed everything. The days of the permeable border are long gone, and your entire criminal record is just a couple of clicks away to the good folks with the guns defending the border from the likes of the 60-year-old professor with a marijuana possession charge from the 70s.

Your friend's conviction is on the record, it will come up in the border service's computer system, and he'll be turned back. You might get the third degree just for travelling with him, and might get searched yourself. But the US will assuredly not let him in with a cocaine charge, and 4 years ago is not that long in the past.

None of you'll never get across customs...and if you're with 'em, you'll be searched, possibly strip searched, and whomever's car you're in, expect it to be ripped apart for a search too!

A Passport is now required...and you can't get one if you're a Felon can you?

I don't know what crossing the other Answerers take, but anything between big cities, and major Interstate/Interprovincial highways --- Felons will never be able to cross. It doesn't matter how long it's been...It's the Felony Customs' officials are going to be looking at! & the charge.

For yourself...be careful who you HANG with!!

Crmes involving controlled substances are cimes of "moral turpitude", and persons with these crimes on their record are NOT admissable to the U.S. A crimminal record check can be run on anyone crossing the border...in EITHER direction...and both Canada and the U.S. prevent such persons from entering.

There is a good chance they will be denied.

From the US Border Website

Generally, any convictions for drug possession can result in denial of entry. If the conviction was long ago, you might contact the U.S. Embassy, Office of Consular Affairs in your country to obtain a waiver. Other misdemeanors may result in denial if they were recent.

They will turn you back. My hubby was denied entry because of a 28 yr old conviction for possession. He was caught smoking a joint outside a bar when he was 24, he is now 52.

by the standards of USA customs & immigrations is that if the person who has had this charge has been told by the courts during during sentencing that they can no longer cross borders then no they can't if this is not part of the sentence then they should have no problem.However to remind you that if you should get pulled over & customs asks about charges that person should admit it & let customs know that part of the sentecing did not include restrictions on travel.

They will look at your DL just like they do in Mexico too and if you are not looking suspicious they would have no reason to run it thru looking for warrents etc. The only way anyone could find this out is to run a background throu FDLE like for job checks etc which takes at least 24 hrs. The cops don't do this unless you give them a reason.

Hell no, that's a federal offense considering you are going into a different country

U can cross with them ONLY if they don't do any researching than again it maybe an interesting experience.

GOOD LUCK!!!! :---)

highly unlikely that they will let them cross

they have a criminal record