TUSCON, Ariz. — Officers with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) at the Port of Nogales’ commercial facility on Friday, Oct. 2, made the largest methamphetamine load seizure in Arizona’s port history.
The discovery was made during an inspection of a tractor-trailer, driven by a 58-year-old man from Mexico. Inside the trailer, which was packed with bell peppers, cucumbers and pickles. CBP officers noticed anomalies throughout the floor of the trailer; further investigation revealed a non-factory floor compartment containing nearly 650 packages of drugs. Inside the packages were approximately 800 pounds of methamphetamine and 9 pounds of fentanyl with a value of nearly $2 million.
Area Port Director Michael Humphries commended the staff at the Nogales Mariposa Cargo Facility for this record-breaking drug seizure.
“This is an enormous amount of very dangerous hard narcotics that Nogales Cargo Officers prevented from reaching communities throughout the United States,” he noted.
This is the second drug seizure of this magnitude in less than three months.
Federal law allows officers to charge individuals by complaint, a method that allows the filing of charges for criminal activity without inferring guilt. An individual is presumed innocent unless and until competent evidence is presented to a jury that establishes guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
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OH WOW! I like to give A Great Big Thank You too all of our men and women who decided to risked their lives in Protecting our Country! Y’all decided to joined forces by working for our Border Patrol Agencies across our lower half of our country! Y’all leave your family not knowing whether or not y’all will return back to your families ! By doing everything possible too stopping these criminals from getting there poison into our country!