SAN DIEGO — Federal agents arrested two men on August 7 after retrieving $2.5 million in cash in vacuum-sealed bags hidden inside their gas tanks near the San Ysidro Port of Entry.
According to a federal search warrant affidavit, obtained by CBS 8, agents from Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) pulled over two vehicles traveling in tandem from Ontario, California, south toward the border.
Agents in Ontario, California, were conducting surveillance on a 2015 Chevy Suburban driven by Guillermo Tafolla and another vehicle, a 2006 Dodge Ram driven by Max Mejia-Moreno…