US border control seizes 'more than a ton of marijuana disguised as CARROTS'

  • Border agents discovered more than a ton of marijuana stuffed into fake carrots at the U.S.- Mexico border on Sunday
  • The street value of the drugs is estimated at $499,000
  • Police say that nearly 3,000 packages were mixed in with real carrots

 

Border agents say they discovered more than a ton of marijuana stuffed into fake carrots mixed in with shipment of fresh carrots at the U.S.-Mexico border on Sunday.

Texas officials say they found 2,493 pounds of alleged marijuana after an imaging system flagged the truck transporting the produce for a secondary examination while it was crossing the Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge along the Texas-Mexico border near the Gulf of Mexico.

The street value of the drugs is estimated at $499,000, said authorities.

That's no vegetable! Drug smugglers were busted trying to hide more than a ton of marijuana disguised as carrots while crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, officials...

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