TUCSON: Customs and Border Protection officers prevented three separate attempts to smuggle almost 91 pounds of methamphetamine through the Port of Nogales earlier this week.
Officers arrested a 30-year-old woman from Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, on March 10 after finding almost 35 pounds of meth, worth more than $104,000, hidden in her Volkswagen sedan. A CBP narcotics detection canine alerted to the drugs when she attempted to enter the U.S. at the Dennis DeConcini crossing.
On March 9, officers at the DeConcini crossing arrested a legal permanent resident alien, age 32, after a canine alerted officers to the rocker panels of her Ford sedan where they found more than 30 pounds of meth, worth almost $91,000.
Later at the same crossing, officers arrested an 18-year-old legal permanent resident alien after a canine led to the discovery of 26 pounds of meth, valued at $78,000, in the rocker panels of her Ford sedan.
CBP officers seized all drugs and vehicles, and turned the subjects over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations.
