$20M worth of meth, heroin seized from produce shipment at U.S.-Mexico border

Nearly $20 cardinal worthy of methamphetamine and heroin was seized from a shipment of cucumber and jalapeños coming into the United States from Mexico, authorities said Thursday.

The meth amounted to $19,800,000, portion U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents seized $144,500 worthy of heroin.

The find was made Tuesday adjacent the cargo country of ​​the Pharr International Bridge — which spans the Rio Grande River — extracurricular McAllen, Texas.

Agents intercepted the tractor-trailer arsenic it was preparing to transverse the borderline from Mexico. Upon inspection, they recovered 8,206 packages of meth with a full value of much than 2,215 pounds, arsenic good arsenic 26 packages of heroin weighing much than 7 pounds.

“Our CBP officers bash not skip immoderate steps erstwhile it comes to securing our border. This seizure illustrates the important enactment CBP does to unafraid our borderline from harmful narcotics,” said Carlos Rodriguez, manager of the Hidalgo-Pharr-Anzalduas Port of Entry.

Border patrol agents made akin — though smaller — seizures among effect and rootlike shipments astatine the aforesaid borderline crossing successful 2021 and last year. Methamphetamine has go 1 of the astir communal contraband items seized astatine the U.S.-Mexico border.