A truck driver is arrested and his rig seized after U.S. border agents find almost 3,000 pounds of methamphetamine hidden in a shipment of carrots.
It's a good idea to wash carrots after they're pulled from the ground because they might have some dirt on them. They don't typically come with more than a ton of methamphetamine, but you can never be too careful. A 44-year-old truck driver is in federal custody after he allegedly tried to cross into the U.S. from Mexico at the Otay Mesa border checkpoint in San Diego with roughly 3,000 pounds of meth hidden amid a large shipment of carrots.
Agents at Otay Mesa found over 400 pounds of cocaine stashed in a shipment of cucumbers in September with a street value of over $5 million, Customs and Border Protection said in a news release. There was the spicy incident when border agents found nearly 2 tons of methamphetamine and cocaine — valued at $10.4 million — buried within dozens of vats of jalapeño paste in December. But smugglers do not disguise their contraband just in produce.
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