Customs and Border Protection officers at the Port of Nogales arrested two tractor-trailer rig drivers attempting to smuggle nearly a ton of drugs through the crossing last week, the agency said.
On Nov. 23, officers at the Mariposa commercial crossing discovered more than 350 pounds of methamphetamine in a shipment of Chinese vegetables. The drugs were worth about $1.1 million and represent the second-largest seizure of meth in the Tucson Field Office, according to a CBP news release.
The driver, a 51-year-old man from Obregon, Sonora, was arrested.
On Nov. 25, officers at Mariposa seized 1,600 pounds of marijuana hidden in the roof of an empty tractor-trailer rig driven by a 37-year-old man from Nogales, Sonora.
The drugs were worth about $800,000.
Officers seized the vehicles and turned the two drivers over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations.
