More than six tons of marijuana seized at El Paso bridge; two arrested
US Customs officers seized 12,620 pounds of marijuana hidden behind wooden pallets in a tractor-trailer at the Bridge of the Americas on 7 February 2003. Two Mexican nationals from Ciudad Juarez were arrested in what the agency called its largest El Paso seizure in more than a decade.
🇺🇸 Bridge of the Americas, El Paso, Texas · Texas, United States
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US Customs officers stopped a tractor-trailer entering the United States at the Bridge of the Americas in El Paso on 7 February 2003 and found more than six tons of marijuana inside.[1]The 12,620 pounds of cannabis, about 5.7 tonnes, were packed in cardboard boxes hidden behind a load of wooden pallets.[1]
The truck had been pulled for a non-intrusive inspection that found discrepancies in the pallet load.[2][1]A drug-detection dog then alerted on the trailer before inspectors opened the boxes.[1]Two male Mexican nationals from Ciudad Juarez were arrested in the incident.[1]The agency called it the largest single drug bust at the El Paso border checkpoint in more than a decade.[2]
The reports do not name the two arrested men or say what charges or sentences followed.
The trade-press account describes a gamma-ray inspection while the threat assessment describes an x-ray inspection with a canine alert; the opened reports do not reconcile the inspection details.
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