drug smuggling

DEA makes record $45M meth bust in Dallas area

The Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) Dallas field office recently announced the biggest seizure of methamphetamine in the branch’s history.

The meth — 1,930 pounds valued at $45 million — was found during a traffic stop involving a refrigerated tractor-trailer off Interstate 35 in Denton County, Texas, the DEA said Wednesday.

The 663 packages of drugs had been stashed in a secret compartment underneath the truck. Officials said the truck was empty.

The Drug Enforcement Administration found...

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Two major drug busts tied to cross-border trucking

Officials in California and Texas recently announced two major drug seizures involving cross-border trucking operations along the United States-Mexico border.

On Tuesday, federal charges against three Mexican nationals “suspected of trafficking huge quantities of illicit drugs for the Sinaloa Cartel” into Southern California from Mexico were announced by U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California Robert Brewer.

Jesus Burgos Arias, Juan Alatorre Venegas and Jose Yee Perez were arrested...

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Laredo CBP seizes narcotics worth $3M

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at two South Texas ports of entry seized narcotics valued at over $3 million in separate cases last week.

The first case occurred Nov. 5 at the Colombia-Solidarity Bridge in Laredo when officers checked a truck hauling a shipment of cutting machines arriving from Mexico. Officers said they found 149.12 pounds of alleged methamphetamine hidden inside buckets within the shipment. 

Buckets containing 149 pounds of methamphetamine
were seized by CBP...

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Trucker held in US-Canada marijuana case asks court to let him go home

Trucks prepare to enter the U.S. from Canada at the Peace Bridge border crossing in Buffalo, the site of multiple marijuana seizures over the summer. (

Trucker Gurpreet Singh hasn’t been back home in Canada since June 13. That morning just before 4 a.m., he pulled his carrier’s tractor-trailer into an inspection lane at the Peace Bridge U.S. border crossing in Buffalo, New York. He presented his paperwork to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer and said he was hauling a load of peat moss to Virginia. A secondary inspection later revealed over 3,000 pounds of suspected marijuana worth $5 million.   

“Did you find drugs in there?” Singh...

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Texas trucker involved in high-speed chase pleads guilty to drug charge

A truck driver who led authorities on a wild chase in South Texas has pleaded guilty to a drug charge.

On April 20, Christopher Sedrick Brown, 46, of Houston, arrived in a tractor-trailer at the U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint on Interstate 35 north of Laredo, Texas.

A Border Patrol K-9 alerted agents to the presence of narcotics or hidden people in the vehicle. When authorities told Brown they wanted to inspect the truck, he accelerated and left the checkpoint at a high rate of speed, according to...

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Trucker arrested after $10M cocaine bust at US-Canada border

Packages of suspected cocaine seized by Canada Border Services Agency officers from a truck crossing from the United States. The truck driver was arrested.

A trucker was arrested after Canadian border officers found more than $10 million worth of suspected cocaine during an inspection of a tractor-trailer coming from the United States, authorities said on Thursday.

The unidentified male truck driver was arrested on Aug. 18 at the Queenston-Lewiston Bridge, a U.S.-Canada border crossing linking southern Ontario and western New York.

Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) officers referred the tractor-trailer for a secondary inspection after noticing...

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CBP officers make another big marijuana bust at US-Canada border

A cardboard box filled with sealed bags of marijuana, seized by US border agents in the latest major marijuana bust at the Canadian border

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers seized $8 million of marijuana after inspecting a shipment at the Peace Bridge in Buffalo in the latest in a string of large drug busts at the Canadian border crossing.

ICYMI: On Monday, @CBP officers at the Peace Bridge in Buffalo, N.Y. interdicted almost 2 tons of marijuana worth approximately $8 million on the street. Learn More: ➡https://t.co/v8GkjAAxeo pic.twitter.com/j05ZYLAiQY

— CBP Buffalo (@CBPBuffalo) August 13, 2020

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