Y'know scrap metal?
Thirty Bucks.
Maybe its worth about thirty dollars now.
One of CBP's top priorities is to ensure the safety
of imported products into the United States,
and the Land Rover Defender, that you see up on top of that pile,
did not meet the safety rules of United States roads.
Those types of vehicles that are older than 25 years,
they're exempt a lot of the highway transportation safety rules
so that they can legally be imported.
And what the importer did on that one is,
he manipulated that Defender to look like it's older than 25 years,
so that he could legally import it.
He did not get away with it.
Our targeters in DC, working with our partners
in the Department of Transportation and the EPA,
targeted this Land Rover Defender for inspection
by our Officers at the Port of Baltimore.
They did the checks of the VIN, and other checks that they do of the vehicle,
and determined that that truck is not 25 years old
and has been illegally manipulated.
They can get upwards of a hundred-thousand dollars for these vehicles,
and someone's thinking that they're getting a 1975 Defender,
when really they're buying a 2005 Defender that's been illegally altered.
We can't offer it for resale, we can't offer it to be re-exported,
and we have to ultimately... destroy it.
Well, this definitely shows the hard work of our CBP Officers,
in collaboration with our other Federal partners.
We kept an unsafe vehicle off American roads, and can save lives.
This is a victory for the CBP Officers working at the Port of Baltimore,
along with our Import Specialists,
we all work together, and what's up on top of that pile, is our trophy.