SAN DIEGO (KYMA, KECY) – U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at the Otay Mesa Port of Entry stopped eight separate cocaine smuggling attempts, preventing more than 240 pounds of cocaine from crossing the border, over the course of two days.
In a press release, the first three smuggling attempts happened on March 4, with the first one happening at around 2:00 p.m. when officers came across a 31-year old man, who is a border crossing card holder, driving a commercial tractor-trailer.
CBP says the driver and tractor-trailer “were referred to secondary inspection when a CBP K-9 unit screened and alerted to a non-factory compartment in the cabin floor.”…