Federal customs officers at a border crossing in South Texas uncovered more than $72 million worth of methamphetamine that drivers attempted to smuggle into the United States from Mexico last weekend.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced late Sunday that Operations of Field Operations officers assigned to bridges where cars and commercial trucks are inspected before entering Laredo, Texas, and Pharr, Texas, from the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, made two large seizures from drug smugglers on June 19.

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