(The Center Square) – The Port of San Luis in Arizona had two major drug busts last week, with a street value of approximately $805,359, within two days of each other.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection confiscated methamphetamine and cocaine in two separate events, according to a news release.
Last Wednesday morning, authorities first stopped a 23-year-old American man attempting to smuggle 117 pounds of meth in a car with the illicit drugs hidden in the vehicle’s floor.
“Our enforcement posture and multiple layers of inspection attributed to these significant seizures and ultimately prevented these dangerous drugs from entering our communities,” Chris Leon, area port director for San Luis, said in a statement.
Then on late Thursday night, a 42-year-old Mexican citizen, who CBP described as a “legal permanent resident” of the United States, was trying to traffic roughly 69 pounds of cocaine in the U.S. in a truck. The truck had the bags of the drug stored inside its speaker.
In both cases, the drugs were caught between a mix of “non-intrusive technology” as well as a canine, the news release noted.
The drug seizures were not the only notable situations at Arizona ports last week. The Center Square reported that a human smuggling attempt was thwarted by CBP officials in Douglas last Monday, in which a woman coming from Mexico was hiding in the spare tire space in a vehicle trunk as an American citizen drove.
There’s also been recent major drug-busting activity from state authorities as well, including the confiscation of more than 1,600 pounds of meth along with fentanyl by the Arizona Financial Crimes Task Force while carrying out a search warrant, The Center Square reported.
