{"id":105634,"date":"2017-04-20T21:30:24","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T01:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/?p=105634"},"modified":"2017-04-20T12:42:10","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T16:42:10","slug":"border-agents-seize-1-4m-marijuana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/border-agents-seize-1-4m-marijuana\/","title":{"rendered":"Border Agents Seize $1.4M in Marijuana"},"content":{"rendered":"
TUCSON, Ariz. \u2013 U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at Arizona\u2019s Port of Lukeville arrested four U.S. citizens and seized more than 2,800 pounds of marijuana during two Easter weekend smuggling attempts.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, a 55-year-old man from Glendale, Arizona, traveling with a 58-year-old female passenger from Phoenix, was referred for a secondary inspection of his motorhome. A CBP narcotics-detection canine then led officers to find multiple marijuana bundles, weighing more than 2,600 pounds and valued in excess of $1.3 million.<\/p>\n
The following day, officers referred a 40-year-old man from Green Valley, Arizona, and his 24-year-old female passenger for further inspection of his Ford truck. With the aid of a narcotics-detection canine, officers found more than 150 pounds of marijuana, worth almost $77,000, within the truck\u2019s bed.<\/p>\n
Officers seized the drugs and vehicles, and turned the suspects over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement\u2019s Homeland Security Investigations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TUCSON, Ariz. \u2013 U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at Arizona\u2019s Port of Lukeville arrested four U.S. citizens and seized more than 2,800 pounds of marijuana during two Easter weekend smuggling attempts. On Saturday, a 55-year-old man from Glendale, Arizona, traveling with a 58-year-old female passenger from Phoenix, was referred for a secondary inspection of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5409,"featured_media":105635,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[1,54,4479],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n