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El Centro Sector Border Patrol Agents Seize Methamphetamine at Checkpoint

Release Date
Mon, 03/23/2015

SALTON CITY, Calif. –El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents assigned to the Indio Station arrested a suspected drug smuggler Sunday after discovering packages of methamphetamine hidden in a backpack.

The incident occurred at approximately 4:30 p.m., when Border Patrol agents encountered a 20-year-old man on a commercial passenger bus at the Highway 86 checkpoint.

Agents referred the bus driver to secondary inspection area for an immigration check.  During the inspection, a Border Patrol canine detection team alerted to the man’s backpack.  The agents searched the backpack and subsequently discovered two packages of methamphetamine.

The methamphetamine had a combined weight of 2.2 pounds with an estimated street value of about $22,000.

The man and the narcotics were turned over to the custody of Drug Enforcement Administration agents for further investigation.

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Last Modified: Feb 03, 2021