Customs and Border Protection officers in Nogales found more than just ice and sodas in a cooler coming across the border, officials said.
Officers at the Dennis DeConcini crossing arrested Roberto Patino-Perez, 31, of Nogales, Sonora, after a drug dog alerted to his Isuzu SUV.
Officers on Wednesday found an ice chest in the vehicle and discovered that it was hollowed out to conceal drugs, the CBP said in a news release. Inside the cooler officers found nearly five pounds of heroin, worth about $68,000, and more than four pounds of meth, worth about $12,000.
Officers seized the vehicle and drugs and turned Patino-Perez over to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations.
