Man caught smuggling nearly $1.2M of meth in squash shipment
By: Claudia AmezcuaPosted at 4:20 PM, May 16, 2022 and last updated 8:12 PM, May 16, 2022
OTAY MESA, Calif. (KGTV) – A man was arrested for attempting to smuggle more than 550 pounds of methamphetamine and almost three pounds of cocaine inside a shipment of squash back in April, according to the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol.
On April 28 at about 7:45 p.m., a 25-year-old driver applied for entry into the U.S. from Mexico at the Otay Mesa Cargo facility, the border patrol said. The driver presented a valid border crossing card, and he was directed aside for further inspection.
CBP officers screened the truck using the port’s imaging system. He was then sent to the dock, where an officer with a human/narcotics detector dog screened the shipment, where the dog alerted officers to the pallet of squash.
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