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Nogales CBP Officers Seize $100K in Methamphetamine

Release Date
Fri, 10/12/2018

TUCSON, Ariz. –U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at Arizona’s Port of Nogales arrested a Mexican national connected with a failed attempt to smuggle methamphetamine into the United States on Thursday.

Officers removed more than 33 pounds of meth from the roof of a smuggling vehicle
Officers removed 33 pounds of meth 
within the roof of a smuggling vehicle
 
 

CBP officers at the Mariposa Crossing referred a 29-year-old Mexican man from Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, for further inspection of his Volkswagen sedan yesterday morning. A CBP narcotics detection canine alerted to a scent it was trained to detect within the vehicle’s roof. Officers removed multiple packages of drugs, which were identified as more than 33 pounds of methamphetamine, worth nearly $100,000.

Officers seized the drugs as well as the vehicle. The subject was arrested and then turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations.

Last Modified: Feb 03, 2021