CALEXICO – Border authorities announced Sunday that they seized more than 6,000 pounds of marijuana with a street value of $5.9 million and arrested the driver of a truck where the drugs were found mingled with a shipment of door knobs. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers made the seizure Friday at the Calexico Port of Entry’s secondary cargo inspection area, according to this brief story from the San Diego Union-Tribune, which is also posted in its entirety here. A canine team alerted officers about the possibility of drugs inside a 1998 trailer. Officers found [...]
Narcotics agents seized 1,300 pounds of marijuana with a street value of $1 million and arrested four men during a raid at an Ontario home used by a Mexican drug cartel, authorities said last week. The house raided during Wednesday’s bust in San Bernardino County was linked to a Mexican drug cartel, according to this story on a Los Angeles Times blog site. Authorities quoted in the article said the pot was grown in Mexico before being transported across the border for distribution in the U.S.
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