Trucker allegedly got $50 to smuggle half a ton of cocaine, documents show

[rangerrebew]

 
BORDER CRIME
Trucker allegedly got $50 to smuggle half a ton of cocaine, documents show
by: Fernie Ortiz

Posted: Oct 17, 2023 / 06:03 PM CDT

Updated: Oct 17, 2023 / 06:03 PM CDT

 
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) — A trucker allegedly was paid a mere $50 to smuggle more than half a ton of cocaine from Mexico into the U.S., according to court documents.

Oswaldo Lopez-Escobar, a Mexican national in his early 40s, arrived in a tractor-trailer at the Mariposa Port of Entry shortly before noon on Oct. 4 in Nogales, Arizona.

During a secondary inspection, border officers ran the vehicle through a multi-energy portal and found anomalies in the trailer’s floor.
 
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A drug-sniffing dog then alerted border officers, who found 155 packages containing just under 1,300 pounds of cocaine. Officers also found about 13 pounds of ketamine, a dissociative anesthetic that has some hallucinogenic effects.

https://www.borderreport.com/immigration/border-crime/trucker-allegedly-got-50-to-smuggle-half-a-ton-of-cocaine-documents-show/

[catfish1957]

lol...  boy needs some training in the concept of risk/reward.   

$50?  That might buy your family a meal at a fast food restaurant nowadays.

[rangerrebew]

It for darn sure won't get him an hour's worth of an attorney's time.