Border Patrol Agents thwart smuggling attempt: Tractor-Trailer rig yields 800-pound marijuana cache

DEL RIO, Texas – Customs and Border Protection-Border Patrol agents staffing a highway checkpoint near Eagle Pass seized more than 800 pounds of marijuana. 

 

At around midnight yesterday [Aug. 6], agents performed an intensive inspection of a gray Freightliner tractor trailer after a service canine alerted to the trailer. The search revealed ten burlap sacks sitting on the floor of the trailer in plain sight. 

Agents recovered a total of 380 individually wrapped bundles of marijuana concealed in the sacks, weighing 803.3 pounds and valued at more than $640,000. 

The contraband and driver were turned over to the Drug Enforcement Administration. The Freightliner and trailer were turned over the Del Rio Sector Border Patrol Office of Vehicle Seizure and Asset Forfeiture.  From SWTexasLive

Another great job by our Border Patrol and their four-legged agents!

U.S. Border Patrol Seizes 915 Pounds of Pot

DEL RIO, Texas – Enforcement activities by U. S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the Del Rio Sector, resulted in the seizure of 915 pounds of marijuana, with an estimated value of $732,624, over the past weekend.

On Friday evening, agents from the Eagle Pass South Station found a large stash of marijuana hidden in a 1998 Freightliner tractor-trailer. The discovery was made as agents at a highway checkpoint performed a routine immigration inspection on the driver. During the inspection, a service K-9 alerted to the exterior of the sleeper section of the vehicle. Closer inspection revealed 200 bundles of marijuana, weighing 416.56 pounds, hidden under the bed in the sleeper. The driver, a 32-year-old Eagle Pass man, vehicle, and marijuana were turned over to the Drug Enforcement Administration.
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Once again, another excellent bust by our Border Patrol!
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