CBP Seizes Over $10 Million In Liquid Meth At Texas Border; Driver Arrested

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents seized millions of dollars worth of meth at a port of entry in El Paso, Texas, also arresting the woman transporting the substance.

CBP informed that the episode took place at the Eagle Pass International Bridge when an officer referred a pickup truck for secondary inspection, which revealed over 1,100 pounds of the substance within an external fuel tank.

CBP then seized both the drugs, which authorities say have a street value of over $10.5 million, and the truck. The driver, a 46-year-old Mexican citizen, was arrested.

it is the latest of several seizures that have taken place over the past weeks, several of them attempted through methods seeking to conceal the drugs inside legal products. Earlier this month, CBP officers intercepted over 1,000 pounds of meth in a shipment of chayote squash at the Pharr International Bridge cargo facility in South Texas.

The cargo, valued at $8.9 million, was concealed in 3,770 packages inside a tractor-trailer arriving from Reynosa, Mexico.

The seizure was the result of a secondary inspection involving nonintrusive scanning equipment and a canine unit. According to a CBP statement, officers referred the vehicle for further examination after identifying potential anomalies during routine inspection procedures.

Back in November, CBP officers at the same Pharr facility uncovered a $31 million shipment of methamphetamine hidden among serrano peppers. That load, weighing approximately 2,155 pounds, was also found inside a tractor-trailer entering from Mexico and flagged after an X-ray scan raised suspicions.

Similar methods have been reported in California. In August, CBP officers at the Otay Mesa Commercial Facility intercepted 629 pounds of meth concealed in a celery shipment. In that episode, the meth had been packed into 508 separate packages and carried an estimated street value of $755,000.