Nogales CBP Officers Arrest Hard Drug Smuggler Fe
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Nogales CBP Officers Arrest Hard Drug Smuggler
February 20, 2019
TUCSON, Ariz. –U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at Arizona’s Port of Nogales arrested a Mexican national Tuesday for attempting to smuggle methamphetamine and heroin through the Port of Nogales.
Officers removed packages of drugs from the intake manifold of a smuggling vehicle.
CBP officers at the DeConcini Crossing referred a 19-year-old Nogales, Sonora, Mexico man for further inspection of his Dodge truck.
Following an alert by a CBP narcotics detection canine, officers focused their attention to the engine compartment.They removed a dozen packages of drugs from the intake manifold.
The drugs were identified as more than 1.5 pounds of meth, worth in excess of $5,000. They also seized nearly 5.5 pounds of heroin, worth almost $150,000.
Officers seized the drugs, truck, and arrested the man. He was then turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations.
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/local-media-rele...g-smuggler
February 20, 2019
TUCSON, Ariz. –U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at Arizona’s Port of Nogales arrested a Mexican national Tuesday for attempting to smuggle methamphetamine and heroin through the Port of Nogales.
Officers removed packages of drugs from the intake manifold of a smuggling vehicle.
CBP officers at the DeConcini Crossing referred a 19-year-old Nogales, Sonora, Mexico man for further inspection of his Dodge truck.
Following an alert by a CBP narcotics detection canine, officers focused their attention to the engine compartment.They removed a dozen packages of drugs from the intake manifold.
The drugs were identified as more than 1.5 pounds of meth, worth in excess of $5,000. They also seized nearly 5.5 pounds of heroin, worth almost $150,000.
Officers seized the drugs, truck, and arrested the man. He was then turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations.
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/local-media-rele...g-smuggler
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