Casa Grande Border Patrol agents found a stolen truck abandoned near Red Rock, Arizona, on the evening of Wednesday 17 December 2014, holding 1,897 pounds of marijuana worth $948,500; the truck had been reported stolen out of Phoenix.[1] Agents working on the multi-agency Silver Bell Initiative had followed detection-technology hits to a 2005 Dodge Ram hidden in dense brush, where they found 84 bundles of marijuana covered with a tarp.[1]

The seizure followed one day after agents from the Office of Air and Marine and the Border Patrol found another stolen truck abandoned near the Sawtooth Mountains with almost 1,675 pounds of marijuana worth an estimated $837,500.[1][2][3] A helicopter crew responding to a sensor activation spotted the tarp-covered truck and directed ground agents to it.[2][3] Agents turned both loads over to the Drug Enforcement Administration, while the Arizona Department of Public Safety took possession of the Red Rock truck.[1]