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Nogales CBP Officers Interrupt Methamphetamine Smuggling Attempt

Release Date
Tue, 10/30/2018

TUCSON, Ariz. –U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at Arizona’s Port of Nogales arrested a Mexican national connected with a failed attempt to smuggle methamphetamine into the United States on Saturday.

Officers removed packages of meth from the rear quarter panels of a smuggling vehicle
Officers removed packages of meth
from the rear quarter panels of a
smuggling vehicle

CBP officers at the Dennis DeConcini Crossing referred a 24-year-old Mexican man from Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, for further inspection of his Ford SUV Saturday morning. A CBP narcotics detection canine alerted to a scent it was trained to detect within the vehicle’s rear quarter panels. Officers removed multiple packages of drugs, which were identified as nearly 11 pounds of methamphetamine, worth more than $32,000.

Officers seized the drugs as well as the vehicle. The subject was arrested and then turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations.

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Last Modified: Feb 03, 2021