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Nogales CBP Officers Seize $377K in Hard Drugs

Release Date
Tue, 09/17/2019

TUCSON, Ariz. - U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Field Operations, officers at the Port of Nogales seized 46 pounds of cocaine and methamphetamine on Thursday.

Officers at the Dennis DeConcini Crossing referred a 26-year-old Tucson man for further inspection of his Dodge sedan as he attempted to enter the U.S. from Mexico on Thursday morning. After a CBP narcotics detection canine alerted to the presence of a scent it was trained to detect, officers removed 10 packages of cocaine from within the vehicle’s rear quarter panels and rear bumper. The packages weighed more than 26 pounds, worth nearly $360,000.

A CBP narcotics detection canine led officers to 26 pounds of cocaine within a smuggling vehicle stopped at the DeConcini Crossing.
A CBP narcotics detection
canine led officers to 26
pounds of cocaine within a
smuggling vehicle stopped
at the DeConcini Crossing

Earlier on the same day, officers at the DeConcini Crossing referred a 19-year-old Nogales, Arizona woman for an additional inspection of her Ford sedan when she attempted to enter the U.S. from Mexico. An alert by a CBP canine led officers to the car’s spare tire, where they removed nearly 20 packages of drugs from inside. The packages were determined to be nearly 18 pounds of meth, worth almost $16,000.

Officers discovered 18 pounds of meth inside of the spare tire of a smuggling vehicle at the DeConcini Crossing.
Officers discovered 18 pounds of meth
inside of the spare tire of a smuggling
vehicle at the DeConcini Crossing.

That afternoon, officers at the Morley Pedestrian Gate referred a 20-year-old man from La Puente, California for further questioning, following a positive alert by a CBP canine. When he was searched, officers removed two packages of meth that were taped to the subject’s thighs. The drugs weighed nearly 2 pounds and have an estimated value of almost $1,800.

Officers seized the vehicles and drugs, while the subjects were arrested and then turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations.

 

Last Modified: Feb 03, 2021