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](/sites/default/files/u407/10292018%20TFO%20NOG%20Meth.jpg)
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.