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Texas Border: $18M Drug Busts in 1 Day
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Federal Agents on two International Bridges connecting Texas and Mexico closed out the month of September with a pair of drug busts on the same day (September 28, 2024) that kept almost 18 million dollars worth of drugs off U.S. streets.
The largest of the two seizures occurred on the Pharr International Bridge when U.S. Customs & Border Protection (CBP) Officers decided to take a closer look at a large truckload of coconuts crossing the border into Texas from Reynosa, Mexico.
Hidden under all those coconuts was a huge load of methamphetamine - 378 packages containing nearly 1,950 pounds of the drug - with a street value of $17,431,726.
That was the case on August 1, 2024, when CBP Officers discovered 3,429 pounds of meth bundled in green wrappers in hopes of blending in with a truckload of lettuce. That $48 million dollar seizure set a new record at the Pharr International Bridge.
After officers sorted the fake fruit from the real thing it weighed in at almost 4,000 pounds of marijuana worth more than $749,000.
Turning our attention back to more recent seizures, CBP Officers on the Eagle Pass International Bridge also reported a significant drug seizure on September 28, 2024.
The officers found two packages containing 4.4 pounds of heroin and four packages containing 9.1 pounds of cocaine hidden within the quarter panels of a van crossing into Texas from Piedras Negras, Mexico. The narcotics had a combined estimated street value of $212,209.32
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