Officers at the Mariposa cargo facility in Nogales seized more than 1,600 pounds of marijuana hidden in wooden spools of wire inside a tractor-trailer rig, officials said.
On Saturday, Customs and Border Protection officers referred a Mexican man for further inspection of his rig. A drug dog alerted to the wooden spools and upon further inspection officers found the drugs, worth more than $800,000, the CBP said in a news release.
It was one of three big busts over the weekend at the Nogales port:
- On Friday night officers at the DeConcini crossing seized 19 pounds of heroin, six pounds of meth and nearly six pounds of cocaine from a Mexican woman's Mazda SUV. The drugs were worth more than $400,000.
- On Sunday, a CBP drug dog at the DeConcini crossing found 18 pounds of meth and three pounds of heroin hidden in a Ford SUV being driving by a 27-year-old woman from Nogales, Arizona. The drugs were worth more than $100,000.
All the drugs and vehicles were seized and the suspects were turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcementβs Homeland Security Investigations.
