CBP Seizes 800 Pounds Of Pot In Two Train Cars

October 20th, 2010 (5) Posted By Grizz.

KVOA.COM. Oct 20, 2010 12:57 PM

NOGALES – CBP officers seized more than 800 pounds of pot in two commercial train cars this weekend.

Customs and Border Protection agents were suspicious of a boxcar traveling with a commercial train that entered the United States through the DeConcini Port of Entry on Oct. 15.

CBP officials say officers inspected the car with a narcotic detector dog, which alerted them to the presence of drugs. Officers found 100 bundles of marijuana inside boxes labeled as containing beer, weighing more than 555 pounds and with an estimated value of $472,000.

On Oct. 17, another train entered the DeConcini Port of Entry rail gate, and CBP officers noticed an “anomaly” with one of the tanker cars.

Officials say the narcotic detector dog assisted officers in finding 13 bundles of marijuana weighing 278 pounds in the empty tanker car. The estimated value of the drugs is $236,000.

No arrests were made in either incident, and the narcotics were seized by CBP.

Above: The bundles of marijuana were discovered on Oct. 17 in a tanker car.

Photo courtesy Field Operations, U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

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  • reagan54

    Good dog! What a flagrant way to transport it. I am sure this has been going on right under everyone’s noses. I also wonder how many tunnels are up an running–the mexicans used to love to use them to transport drugs and people.

  • DC

    That was merely the decoy. The real shipment was likely several tons that went completely un-noticed! :roll:

    • reagan54

      NK

  • Richwill

    Need to quit fucking around and legalize it. Criminalizing pot is a waste of resources.

  • reagan54

    I’m going back and forth on it. Several studies have shown that legalizing everything would help. But the U.S was started by the Puritans and and they still have something to do with how we think about things.

    I read that Holland has reversed the ease of getting drugs, et al and the more I read I find that it has not been reversed like we have been told. The statistics are interesting too. With all of the exposure their children have compared to children in the States, their statistics on long term use, addition, percentage of people using –I can’t remember all of the statistics– but they have less a problem than we have in the States.