More than $11.6 million worth of alleged methamphetamine was discovered inside a tractor-trailer crossing at an entry point along the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas over the weekend.
Port Director Carlos Rodriguez announced officers had uncovered “330 packages of alleged methamphetamine weighing 581 pounds” at the Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge.
“Our officers working at the commercial facility in Pharr accomplished this discovery of methamphetamine through an effective use of all available tools and resources,” Rodriguez said in a press release to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection website on Wednesday. “These narcotics did not cross the border and will never inflict harm on our communities.”
The drugs are reportedly worth $11,618,000 and were hidden in a commercial trailer that was transporting broccoli.
CBP senior official Mark Morgan said the seizure was “another example of CBP keeping this deadly drug from flooding streets across the country.”
Agents with the Homeland Security Investigations division of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement are working on the case.
