Frosted Flakes...
Posted on 12/18/2025 2:38:14 AM PST by DFG
Customs and Border Protection has thwarted a large drug smuggling attempt in Texas.
CBP officers in the Lone Star State discovered a tractor trailer filled with cereal ingredients. More than $10.3 million in alleged methamphetamine was found hidden inside the cereal bags.
“Our front-line CBP officers shut down a significant meth smuggling attempt hidden within ingredients that shouldn’t grace anyone’s breakfast table,” Port Director for the Hidalgo/Pharr/Anzalduas Port of Entry Carlos Rodriguez said.
“As this seizure perfectly illustrates, our officers continue to use their inspections skills and technological tools to prevent this poison from reaching American streets,” Rodriguez added.
The bust took place on Dec. 12 at Pharr International Bridge in Pharr, Texas, along the border of Mexico and 160 miles south of Laredo. The driver of the tractor trailer was attempting to enter the U.S. from Mexico and was carrying what was presented to be a commercial shipment of oat flax, according to CBP.
CBP used “nonintrusive inspection equipment” and canines to inspect the tractor trailer. During a “physical inspection,” agents found “64 packages of alleged methamphetamine with a combined weight of 1,156.32 pounds (524.50 kg) concealed within the shipment of oat flakes.”
CBP’s Office of Field Operations seized the tractor trailer and the narcotics.
During fiscal year 2025, CBP seized 170,000 pounds of methamphetamine, 55,000 pounds of which was seized at ports of entry in the Laredo Field Office. During fiscal year 2024, CBP seized 174,000 pounds of methamphetamine at U.S. ports and along the borders, up from 140,000 pounds in fiscal year 2023.
Criminal cartels have continued to attempt to smuggle drugs into the U.S. as President Donald Trump has acted to secure America’s southern border and stop the flow of illegal aliens and drugs into the U.S.
Under the Biden administration, the criminal cartels began making more money smuggling people into the U.S. than they could make smuggling drugs, according to immigration officials. Even before Trump returned to office in January, immigration experts predicted Trump’s plan to secure the border and end the parole of illegal aliens into the U.S. would lead the cartels to change business models and rely more heavily on drug smuggling, especially through ports.
Furthermore, immigration officials credit the uptick in drug seizures to Border Patrol agents no longer spending time processing illegal aliens, but on patrol in the field instead.
“We know for a fact that less drugs are crossing our border, but we watch our seizures go up, and so … during the previous four years, those large seizures we’re seeing were the large seizures that weren’t happening, and they were getting to the United States, and they were infecting our communities,” U.S. Border Patrol Chief Michael Banks said at a recent press conference in Washington, D.C.
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I wonder how they destroy these large quantities of drugs without polluting ground water. Do they burn them in a giant bonfire?
It's like if GM or Ford shipped car transport trucks hauling 10 cars knowing that a portion of them would be stolen in transit, aware that the stolen vehicles would generate no profit, at some point they would determine a threshhold (3 in 10? 4 in 10?) where the practice would no longer be worth it, but until then, they would continue to ship cars for sale.
That should be an automatic death sentence.
Kellogg’s Ice Krispies, anyone? How ‘bout a bowl of Lucky Harms?...All part of a nutritious breakfast!
Wow. The drug addict’s supply of meth to keep them high and the supply of fentanyl to calm them down is being shut off.
Not much of a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year for them.
As if the sugar high wasn’t bad enough.
I bet Wheaties won’t hold a candle to that stuff.
Did a search:
Methods for Destroying Seized Drugs
Incineration
Preferred Method: Incineration is the most common and preferred method for destroying large quantities of seized drugs, including cocaine and other controlled substances.
Process: Drugs are typically stored securely until there is a sufficient volume for destruction. They are then burned in high-temperature incinerators that meet environmental standards.
Challenges: Incinerators can only process a limited amount of drugs at a time, which can lead to backlogs. Authorities often wait to accumulate larger quantities before destruction.
For some reason, this reminds me of the classic Chris Rock commercial (maybe NSFW):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXDFbFbNXOs
They give it a Hunter. It’s gone in an hour.
Thanks!
Reminds me of the Calvin and Hobbes breakfast cereal “Crunchy Sugar Bombs” and “Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs”.
“Now with the goodness of Meth!”
Frosted flakes.
Apple Cracks (wrong drug, I know).
Frosted Flakes...
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