A massive shipment of methamphetamine allegedly being smuggled into the U.S. was seized by federal authorities, according to a statement to Blaze News.
The contraband was seized from a shipment of leeks being transported across the Pharr International Bridge cargo facility on Saturday, according to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Department.
‘The efforts of our CBP officers continue to be illustrated with massive disruptions of smuggling attempts at our international crossings.’
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CBP officers had referred a tractor-trailer traveling from Reynosa in Mexico to secondary inspection on the bridge.
The inspection with nonintrusive equipment found anomalies in the shipment, and a canine indicated the odor of narcotics.
That led to a physical inspection that discovered 95 packages of alleged methamphetamine with a combined weight of 1,204.82 lbs. concealed inside the
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