CBP Seizes $22.4M in Marijuana from Tractor Trailer Cottonseed Load
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has announced that from July 24 through July 28, it has confiscated 11 tons of marijuana from the Rio Grande Valley Sector. The largest of the seizures occurred on July 26, when a man attempted…
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to drive a tractor-trailer loaded with marijuana through the Falfurrias Border Patrol Checkpoint. Upon inspection, CBP agents found more than 11,500 pounds of marijuana, with an estimated value of more than $9.4 million, hidden within a load of cottonseed. Additional seizures pushed the total estimated value of marijuana confiscated to more than $22.4 million.