Nogales CBP officers seize $488K in hard drugs

Contributed Photo/Courtesy U.S. Customs and Border Protection: Officers removed packages from all four doors of a smuggling vehicle. 

Contributed Article: Courtesy U.S. Customs and Border Protection

NOGALES – U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Field Operations, officers at the Port of Nogales seized nearly 91 pounds of methamphetamine, heroin, and fentanyl, Tuesday.

CBP Officers at the Dennis DeConcini Crossing referred a 29-year-old Mexican national for further inspection of his Mercury SUV when he attempted to enter the U.S. from Mexico on Tuesday afternoon. After a CBP narcotics detection canine alerted to a scent it is trained to detect, officers removed 80 packages from all four doors. The packages were identified as more than 78 pounds of meth, with an estimated value of nearly $235,000. They also seized more than six pounds of heroin, worth almost $160,000 as well as more than six pounds of fentanyl, worth $84,000.

Officers seized the drugs and vehicle. The subject was arrested and then turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations.