Customs officers in Nogales seized nearly 270 pounds of methamphetamine in a tractor-trailer load of mangoes.
On Wednesday, Customs and Border Protection officers at the Mariposa cargo facility sent a Mexican trucker to a secondary inspection area. An agency drug dog alerted to the rig, and a search uncovered the meth hidden under the rear floor of the rig, officials say.
The 250 packages of meth are worth about $809,000, US Customs and Border Protection said in a news release.
Officers seized the drugs and the rig. The driver, 33, was turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcementβs Homeland Security Investigations.
