EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) — Calling it a “major interception,” border officials say a tractor-trailer hauling polypropylene from Mexico to the U.S. was also carrying more than $10 million worth of meth.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection said the truck, a Volvo, was ordered to undergo a secondary inspection on June 15 when it arrived at the World Trade Bridge in Laredo, Texas.
CBP said the truck was scanned by a drug-sniffing dog and X-ray technology before border officers found more than 1,100 pounds of methamphetamine within the shipment.
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According to the CBP news release, the drugs had a street value of $10.1 million. CBP seized the drugs, while special agents with Homeland Security Investigations, which is part of U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement, are investigating the seizure…