Nearly 1.5 tons of marijuana seized from tractor-trailer at Nogales
CBP officers at the Mariposa crossing found 2,946 pounds of marijuana in 139 bundles behind a false wall of an empty tractor-trailer on 17 November 2014, valued at $1.47 million; the 70-year-old driver was arrested and turned over to Homeland Security Investigations.
🇺🇸 Mariposa commercial facility, port of Nogales, Arizona · Arizona, United States
Officers from U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Office of Field Operations at the Port of Nogales’ Mariposa crossing referred 70-year-old Mexican national Jose Enriquez-Anzar for a non-intrusive inspection of the tractor-trailer he was driving on Monday 17 November 2014, after an x-ray showed an anomaly inside the supposedly empty trailer.[1][2]A narcotics detection canine then alerted to drugs, and officers found 139 bundles of marijuana weighing 2,946 pounds behind a false wall, which the agency valued at $1,473,000.[1][2]
Officers seized the drugs and the tractor-trailer, and turned Enriquez-Anzar over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations.[1][2]
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The tractor-trailer seized with nearly 1.5 tons of marijuana at the Port of Nogales Mariposa crossing.Photo details
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