ARIZONA: Where there is a will there is a way, and drug smugglers do what they can to sneak their valuable contraband into the US market. But for one woman, disguising methamphetamine as a favourite handheld Mexican food delicacy was not enough to fool US Customs and Border Protection officials.
Border Patrol arrested a 23-year-old woman found smuggling more than $3,000 (£2,046) worth of meth into Nogales, Arizona. The narcotics were wrapped in tortillas, dressed up to look like unassuming burritos.
Drug-sniffing dogs confirmed the presence of the drugs inside of the one-pound bag containing the meth. KTLA 5 reports that the Arizona-born woman told officers that she was a hired mule, paid $500 to smuggle the drugs across the US-Mexico border.
The arrest was one of a series of busts made on the Nogales border, netting about $929,000 worth of narcotics, the CBP said in a statement.
