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$186,000 in marijuana seized at Laredo Port of Entry

June 23rd 2012   ·   11 Comments

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Laredo Port of Entry on Wednesday seized what they believe to be 186 pounds of marijuana. The street value was estimated around $186,000.

The marijuana was discovered in a 1992 Ford Ranger XLT pickup driven by a 27-year-old Mexican citizen from Nuevo Laredo.

CBP officers conducted an intensive examination and discovered 36 packages containing 186 pounds of the narcotic hidden within the vehicle.

The driver was turned over to Homeland Security Investigations and the Laredo Police Department for further investigation.

A version of this column originally appeared in www.ksat.com.

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Readers Comments (11)

  1. Garth Ross says:
    June 23, 2012 at 5:03 pm

    Don’t worry—I’m sure it’s only for medicinal purposes.

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  2. Dorothy Slattery says:
    June 23, 2012 at 5:04 pm

    As far as drugs go that $$ value isn’t much, now if that was my pocket money I’d think it alot!

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  3. Danny Maguire says:
    June 23, 2012 at 5:09 pm

    keep letting them have citizenship and you’ll be seeing alot more of this crap.!!!!

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  4. Linda Burns says:
    June 23, 2012 at 5:10 pm

    They just seized a huge amount of heroin in Austin, TX. They said the sellers were making $6,000 a day selling heroin here. We are thankful the marijuana was seized and didn’t make it across!

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  5. Reuben Mullet says:
    June 23, 2012 at 5:10 pm

    You mean ombummer allows this

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  6. Rachel Simonsen says:
    June 23, 2012 at 6:11 pm

    No obumer said its all Bush’s fault. Glad they removed the drugs from the street.

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  7. Debbie Ann Arnett says:
    June 23, 2012 at 6:22 pm

    Thank You, Border Agents!!!!

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  8. Loy Morrison-Castro says:
    June 23, 2012 at 6:58 pm

    Perhaps those drug dealers should be added to the list illegal aliens that became American Citizens a few days ago….Easier access to our country! ( SARCASM)

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  9. Martin Anderson says:
    June 23, 2012 at 11:57 pm

    Was it a shippment to the White House ?

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  10. Lionel Ducote says:
    June 24, 2012 at 12:16 pm

    that might have made me mad at one point. concentrate on Heroin, cocaine

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  11. Heath Poland says:
    June 25, 2012 at 11:17 pm

    what about xanax or jack daniels?

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