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General Category => Immigration/Border => Topic started by: rangerrebew on February 23, 2019, 03:22:12 pm

Title: Border Patrol: Female ‘Body Carrier’ Arrested at Border With $6,800 In Heroin
Post by: rangerrebew on February 23, 2019, 03:22:12 pm
Border Patrol: Female ‘Body Carrier’ Arrested at Border With $6,800 In Heroin

February 21, 2019
 
Officers seized two packages of drugs determined to be a quarter pound of heroin and a second package of pills / CBP Photo

TUCSON, Ariz. – U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at Arizona’s Port of Nogales arrested a United States citizen Tuesday night for attempting to smuggle heroin on her person.

CBP officers at the DeConcini pedestrian crossing referred a 50-year-old Tucson woman for further inspection and found two packages concealed around her torso, one package was identified as a quarter pound of heroin worth almost $6,800 and the second package of pills is undetermined at this time.

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