Filed Under:  Border Patrol, Customs And Border Protection, Drug Smuggling, Marijuana

CBP Officers Confiscate $2 Million in Marijuana

July 27th 2012   ·   13 Comments

RIO GRANDE CITY – More than 2,500 pounds of marijuana were confiscated Monday at the Rio Grande City-Ciudad Camargo International Bridge, officials said.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials said officers found 448 packages with marijuana hidden in a shipment of serrano peppers.

Officials said the drugs have an estimated street value of more than $2 million.

CBP seized the marijuana, tractor-trailer and the shipment of serrano peppers.

 

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

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Readers Comments (13)

  1. Vicky Underhill says:
    July 27, 2012 at 2:58 pm

    Keep those borders porous and who knows what may come through!

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  2. Joe Garcia says:
    July 27, 2012 at 2:59 pm

    Cool !

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  3. Viola Smith Hobbs says:
    July 27, 2012 at 3:00 pm

    Let those people apply to come in legally.

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  4. Karen Marchand says:
    July 27, 2012 at 3:02 pm

    this is only what is reported, wonder actually how much there was

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  5. Deborah Mct Paine says:
    July 27, 2012 at 3:02 pm

    Great Job! They will try anything to get their drugs through; even peppers!

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  6. Kaye Whitney says:
    July 27, 2012 at 3:06 pm

    Keep it up, CBP Officers!

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  7. Joseph Rodrigues says:
    July 27, 2012 at 3:30 pm

    Yet our troops still guard the poppies in Afghanistan…

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  8. John Eyerman says:
    July 27, 2012 at 3:32 pm

    GOOD JOB GUYS

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  9. Charles Curtis says:
    July 27, 2012 at 4:13 pm

    GREAT JOB !!!!!

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  10. Dee Anne Capansky-Farris says:
    July 27, 2012 at 5:19 pm

    Great work!

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  11. Arlington Kennedy says:
    July 27, 2012 at 6:40 pm

    What, now the dopers will really be pissed

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  12. Michael Asbury says:
    July 27, 2012 at 7:20 pm

    Pizza sales in the area are down

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  13. Karen Marchand says:
    July 28, 2012 at 1:09 am

    Only what is reported to the media, what didnt they report!

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