CBP finds 14,800 pounds of marijuana in watermelon truck at Nogales
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Mariposa Commercial Facility in Nogales found about 14,800 pounds of marijuana mixed into a shipment of watermelons on 21 April 2016. The 51-year-old Mexican driver was arrested and referred to Homeland Security Investigations.
🇺🇸 Mariposa Commercial Facility, Port of Nogales · Arizona, United States
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Mariposa Commercial
Facility in Nogales, Arizona, seized about 14,800 pounds of marijuana, worth
about 7.4 million dollars, from a Mexican national on 21 April 2016.[1]After a narcotics-detection dog alerted on his tractor-trailer, officers sent
the rig for a secondary inspection and found the packaged marijuana mixed
among a shipment of watermelons.[2]
The driver, a 51-year-old man from Nogales in the Mexican state of Sonora, was
arrested.[1]Officers seized the tractor-trailer and its shipment and turned
the driver over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland
Security Investigations.[1]Officials called it the third-largest marijuana
seizure at an Arizona port of entry.[2]
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Seized marijuana packages mixed into the watermelon shipmentPhoto details
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