Photo byU.S. Customs & Border Protection

The hits just keep on coming for cartel drug smugglers along the Texas border.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Agents report another big methamphetamine bust on one of the 28 international crossing points into Texas from Mexico. The latest reported bust occurred Thursday, August 22, 2024 at the Progreso International Bridge.

$1,804,208 worth of methamphetamine seized by CBP Officers on August 22, 2024, at the Progreso International Bridge.Photo byU.S. Customs & Border Protection

CBP Officers discovered 108 packages containing 196 pounds of methamphetamine inside a vehicle driven by a 27-year-old U.S. citizen. The drug load had a street value of more than $1,800,000 dollars.

This seizure continues a streak of large meth busts by federal agents this month along the border - including a record-breaking $48 million dollar meth seizure on the Pharr International Bridge.

What was supposed to be a truckload of lettuce arriving from Mexico was found to contain 1,488 packages of meth worth more than $48 million.Photo byU.S. Customs & Border Protection

When CBP Officers there took a closer look at thousands of pounds of lettuce crossing into Texas from Mexico they found 1,488 meth packages weighing 3,429.60 pounds worth more than $48 million buried below the piles of vegetables.

Can you spot the drug bundles disguised as melons in this produce shipment? U.S. federal agents did.Photo byU.S. Customs & Border Protection

Blending in bundles of meth shaped and colored like real produce is a favored smuggling method of the cartels. (You can read more about that HERE).

CBP Officers this month in Otay Mesa, California discovered almost 5,000 pounds of "fake watermelons" were actually 1,220 large meth bundles disguised as fruit within a large semi-truckload of the real thing..

This bundle shaped and wrapped to look like a melon tested positive for methamphetamine.Photo byU.S. Customs & Border Protection

That seized drug load was worth $5 million dollars to one of the cartels.

Other notable meth busts along the border with Mexico this month include:

• Over 600 Pounds of Meth in a Celery Shipment
• 378 Pounds of Methamphetamine in Shipment of Tomatillos
• Arizona Police Seize 20 Pounds of Methamphetamine

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