According to ABC (ABC) report on the 14th, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said that when the agency inspected a car at the southern border on Tuesday, liquid methamphetamine (meth) was found in 136 condoms, and these drugs were hidden in four pumpkins.
CBP officials found the drugs while searching an SUV car entering the country from Mexico on the Igelpass Cross-bridge in Texas, which weighed 44 pounds in total and were worth about $400,000.
methamphetamine was poured into a condom and hidden in a pumpkin. Source: US media
"Our frontline officials of CBP have seen almost all kinds of ways to hide drugs, and Tuesday was no exception. They seized liquid methamphetamine hidden in the pumpkin." Elizabeth Garduno, acting director of the Eaglepass Port, said in a statement.
Gaduno said U.S. border law enforcement officers "used their training, experience and inquiry skills to discover a rather novel drug smuggling method during Tuesday's seizure process."
CBP said the unidentified driver and passenger on the train had been detained by the Maverick County Sheriff's Office "pending further investigation."
report pointed out that as of now, CBP has seized 161,000 pounds of methamphetamine in fiscal year 2022. In the last fiscal year, the agency seized 192,000 pounds of methamphetamine. The
report also mentioned another drug smuggling incident that occurred recently. Arizona CBP officials wrote on Twitter that on Wednesday, they found about 2,100 fentanyl pills in corn burritos placed in a freezer.
(Editor: ZLQ)
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