Posted on 05/30/2008 5:42:26 PM PDT by SandRat
Border Patrol drug-sniffing dog detected almost 1,400 pounds of marijuana stacked between pallets of squash in a tractor-trailer rig at the Interstate 19 checkpoint Wednesday. The trailer contained 63 bundles of marijuana, with an estimated street value of $1.1 million, said U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials.
The driver, a 41-year-old Mexican national, was taken into custody.
The vehicle and marijuana were confiscated by the Drug Enforcement Administration.
Officials said that since October 2007, the Border Patrol's Tucson Sector has seized more than 520,000 pounds of marijuana. Dog units have been responsible for one-fourth of the seizures.
Border PING
Good dog.
I see the Mexican trucker program is working well.
Just for PERSONAL USE.
I’d bet the Mexicans get 100 more tons in before the end of the year.
Easy find. I’d be more impressed if he sniffed out a lid hidden in a manure truck.
Worse than that, it is an invasive weed.
I hope somebody discovers that crabgrass aerosol (put into the air by the evil lawnmower) is hallucinogenic and needs a huge intrusive federal program to eradicate it.
It will probably be in the thousands. The government estimates that between 12,000 and 25,000 metric tons of marijuana are available on the streets in this country every year after they seize all they are going to seize, and most of it is from Mexico.
Ping....the good guys win another round.
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