When CBP Officers took a closer look at the thousands pound load of lettuce - they found something else buried below the piles of the vegetables.
A supposed load of thousands of pounds of Mexican lettuce arriving at the U.S. Border in Pharr, Texas was found to contain something else.Photo byU.S. Customs & Border Protection
Instead of salad ingredients, they found bundles of methamphetamines - wrapped in green plastic - meant to blend in with the legitimate load of lettuce. In all, the officers found 1,488 meth packages weighing 3,429.60 pounds worth more than $48 million! (That's a new record at this U.S. Port of Entry).
This is far from the first time that Mexican Cartel smugglers have used a load of fruits and vegetables to disguise their true cargo.
This "lime" is actually a well-disguised bundle of drugs hidden within a large shipment of fruit arriving @ Pharr, Texas in 2017.Photo byU.S. Customs & Border Protection
For years, Mexican cartels have attempted to smuggle drugs into Texas disguised as produce - and the fact that they are still using this well-known ruse indicates more loads of drugs are getting past law-enforcement officers than are being discovered (else they would have changed their tactics).
If you want to know more about the cartels' efforts to smuggle drugs camouflaged as fruits and vegetables, you can read an article I have written about that HERE.
The seizure in Pharr comes as the feds have targeted these drug shipments through "Operation Apollo" - which I will write about in greater depth on Newsbreak in upcoming days.
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