U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Tecate port of entry Wednesday seized 92 pounds of heroin, valued at more than $870,000, from an elderly woman.
“The cartels will try and manipulate anyone to smuggle their narcotics through the ports of entry,” said San Diego CBP Director of Field Operations Pete Flores. “CBP officers are aware of the many tactics used by the cartels and remain ever vigilant to stop anyone attempting to smuggle narcotics.”
CBP officers working at the Tecate border crossing encountered a 81-year-old woman, United States citizen when she entered the U.S. driving a 2011 Chrysler 200 at about 11:30 a.m. A CBP K-9 team was screening vehicles as they waited in line for inspection when the detector dog alerted to the driver side rocker panel.
CBP officers referred the vehicle for a more in-depth inspection, during which CBP officers discovered and extracted a total of 34 wrapped packages of heroin from the vehicle’s rocker panels. The estimated street value of the heroin is over $870,000.
The woman was arrested and turned over to Homeland Security Investigations agents for further processing and CBP officers seized the vehicle.
CBP officers at the border crossings in Southern California routinely stop illegal activity, while processing millions of legitimate travelers into the United States. Those statistics can be found here: CBP-enforcement-statistics.
It's not funny how News like this is not plastered on every outlet. Drug smuggling and the misery it brings to our cities and towns is the number one cause of all the s*** that goes on every night in this entire County.
ReplyDeleteYes the liberal media is the enemy of the people otherwise they be doing something to help us instead of getting their Socialist Communist garbage elected to office.
The same crap that was going on in Nazi Germany is going on right now everywhere in this entire world and it's the crazy liberal left that's bringing it. Look at the drug misery now with the borders we have think of what it will be with open borders. American is being flooded with the refugee's of the radical Muslim Horde pushing itself all over into Wastern Europe just like it did before the Crusades push them back. Unfortunately the truth is their either at your feet or at your throats. The drugs are weapon of mass destruction having been used on us for decades and the liberal-left is complicit in their distribution. Sounds crazy doesn't it ? Unfortunately it's not.