Record 14,151-pound marijuana load seized at Nogales crossing
CBP officers at the Mariposa cargo facility in Nogales seized 600 bales of marijuana weighing 14,151 pounds from a tractor-trailer on 15 January 2013, then the largest marijuana seizure at an Arizona border crossing.
🇺🇸 Mariposa cargo facility, port of Nogales, Arizona · Arizona, United States
CBP officers at the Mariposa cargo facility in Nogales, Arizona, singled out a tractor-trailer driven by a 26-year-old man from Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, and found 600 bales of marijuana packed in boxes manifested as steel containers.[1][2]The seizure of 15 January 2013 weighed 14,151 pounds (about 6,419 kg) and was worth up to $12 million, then the largest marijuana seizure at an Arizona border crossing.[1][2]
Officers seized the marijuana and the truck, a 1994 International tractor-trailer, and turned the driver over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations; his name was not released.[1][2]The previous Arizona record, 12,000 pounds, had been set at the same port in June 2010.[1]
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A later CBP recap of the November 2013 record seizure gives this seizure as 14,121 pounds worth $7.1 million; the report uses the 14,151-pound, up-to-$12-million figures both opened sources state.
The driver was not named and no charging outcome was reported.
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