Record 20,375-pound marijuana load found in a squash truck at Nogales
Customs officers at the Mariposa crossing in Nogales found 881 bundles weighing 20,375 pounds of marijuana hidden in a tractor-trailer of Mexican squash, then the largest load seized on Arizona's border; the driver was arrested and handed to federal investigators.
🇺🇸 Mariposa commercial facility, port of Nogales, Arizona · Arizona, United States
A tractor-trailer of Mexican squash hiding a 10.1-million-dollar shipment of marijuana was stopped at the port of Nogales by Customs and Border Protection officers at the Mariposa commercial facility.[1]Pedro Corona-Moreno, 32, of Hermosillo, Sonora, was sent to a routine inspection of his produce load as he entered the United States, and a canine alerted to marijuana once the shipment was offloaded.[1][2]
A state record
Officers pulled 881 bundles weighing 20,375 pounds (about 9.24 tonnes) from the load, the largest marijuana seizure on Arizona’s border with Mexico.[1][2]It beat the previous state record of about 14,000 pounds seized that January.[1][2]
The tractor-trailer, the drugs and the produce were seized, and Corona-Moreno was arrested and turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations.[1][2]Tucson field chief Roderick Blanchard credited his officers’ diligence for the continued success at the ports.[1]
Case data
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The CBP page carries release metadata of 20 January 2014, while the seizure it describes matches the record bust of 13 November 2013 reported by the Associated Press; the report uses the November 2013 date.
The CBP release describes the previous Arizona record as 14,121 pounds seized on 15 January of the same year, while the Associated Press places that earlier record ten months before, in January 2013.
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