TUCSON: US Customs and Border Protection officers at the Nogales Commercial Facility seized more than $1.1 million in marijuana 2,215 pounds from a male Mexican national when he attempted to enter the United States. Pallets of bell peppers are determined to be co-mingled with bundles of marijuana, by CBP officers at the Port of Nogales Pallets labeled as bell peppers are determined to actually be more than a ton of marijuana.
A positive alert by a CBP narcotics-detection canine led officers to the discovery of 99 bundles of marijuana co-mingled in a tractor-trailer load of bell peppers. Officers seized the vehicle and drugs. The driver, Jorge Luis Castro-Rivera, 43, was referred to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations.
