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U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized a load of 614 pounds of methamphetamine hidden in a load of green onions from Mexico. Officials estimated the drug shipment to be worth approximately $1.4 million.

Drug seizures jumped 50 percent in June under the combined efforts of U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s officers and agents. Included in these is a nearly 70 percent increase in cocaine and a 151 percent rise in fentanyl.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized more than 565 pounds of liquid methamphetamine on a commercial bus attempting to enter from Mexico. The seizure occurred in the Del Rio Sector at the Camino Real International Bridge connecting Eagle Pass, Texas, and Piedras Negras, Coahuila.

Tucson Sector Customs and Border Protection officers seized more than 260 pounds of drugs as a woman allegedly attempted to move them through an Arizona port of entry. The interdiction led to the seizure of 51 pounds of fentanyl, 91 pounds of heroin, and 113 pounds of methamphetamine.

El Paso Sector Border Patrol agents seized more than 22 pounds of methamphetamine at an interior immigration checkpoint near Alamogordo, New Mexico, on Saturday. The meth, found in a Ford Mustang, is valued at more than $700,000.

Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents disrupted two smuggling events late last week near the Arizona border with Mexico. One incident involved a failed human smuggling. The second involved a meth smuggler, officials reported.

El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents arrested a mother traveling with two infants after allegedly finding 117 pounds of methamphetamine in her car. The arrest occurred at the interior immigration checkpoint on Highway 86 on June 18.

Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents arrested three people and seized two firearms in connection with an attempted methamphetamine smuggling operation. The incident occurred at an interior immigration checkpoint in southwest Arizona.

Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents seized more than 167 pounds of methamphetamine and fentanyl at an interior immigration checkpoint in southwest Arizona. The seizure followed an alert by a Border Patrol K-9 during the inspection.

San Diego Sector Border Patrol agents arrested an alleged drug smuggler and seized more than 43 pounds of methamphetamine at an interior checkpoint. Officials placed the value of the drugs at nearly $100,000.

An Iowa woman was arrested after allegedly asking the cops to check her stash of narcotics for traces of the coronavirus.

A federal task force in Southern California recently discovered a sophisticated cross-border tunnel running from Mexico to the United States. The task force seized significant quantities of cocaine, methamphetamine, fentanyl, and marijuana during a search of the connected San Diego-area warehouse.

Tucson Sector Customs and Border Protection officers crossed a sector record with the seizure of nearly 700 pounds of methamphetamine at an Arizona port of entry last week.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in the Laredo Sector seized two loads of drugs estimated to be worth about $1.4 million in two consecutive days.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) announced the results of a months-long operation targeting one of Mexico’s most violent drug cartels known as Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion.

A convicted felon who became one of the faces of the “First Step Act” law after his release from prison last year has since been re-arrested for allegedly trafficking meth in North Carolina.

Yuma and San Diego Sector Border Patrol agents seized in excess of 200 pounds in methamphetamine, fentanyl, cocaine, and heroin at interior immigration checkpoints and through traffic stops in Arizona and California. Officials estimated the drugs to be worth more than $2 million.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers in California and Texas seized approximately 350 pounds of methamphetamine, cocaine, and heroin over the weekend. The seizures occurred as drivers attempted to enter the U.S. from Mexico.

Rio Grande Valley Sector officers with U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized more than $5 million in liquid methamphetamine and $200K in cash at Texas ports of entry.

Police departments in Merrill, Wisconsin, and Johnson City, Texas, are trying to catch potential criminals by playing upon their coronavirus fears. 

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers arrested a South Texas teenager who allegedly attempted to enter the United States with more than $1.6 million worth of methamphetamine.

Border Patrol agents and U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized more than 250 pounds of illicit drugs being smuggled into the United States from Mexico. The seizures happened in separate incidents in the Yuma and Tucson Sectors.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in South Texas seized more than $18 million worth of methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine, and marijuana in a single drug smuggling incident.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at Texas ports of entry stopped more than $5.3 million in methamphetamine and cocaine from being successfully smuggled during a two-week period.

El Paso Sector Customs and Border Protection officers seized more than 1,500 pounds of liquid methamphetamine at the Ysleta Port of Entry. The seizure more than triples the total of all methamphetamine seizures at El Paso area ports for Fiscal Year 2019.

Multiple cells of independent meth dealers managed to grow in power and size to the point where they began to actively clash with other drug cartels who are trying to control all the drug markets.

Two men were arrested for alleged drug trafficking Saturday after troopers found a bag stuffed with drugs inside their vehicle in Santa Rosa County, Florida.

Authorities arrested a 65-year-old grandmother and her 19-year-old granddaughter at a San Diego border crossing after they allegedly tried to sneak 200 pounds of methamphetamine into the U.S.

Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents say they arrested an armed man driving a stolen pickup truck and a female drug smuggler at an interior immigration checkpoint over the weekend.

Brandon Kirby of Mannford, Missouri, was apprehended by authorities in Oklahoma, following a three-state pursuit with human and bovid hostages.

A Maine man has been accused of turning a child’s playroom at a Methodist church into a lab that produces methamphetamine.

In what could be described as a scene out of the AMC show Breaking Bad, two chemistry professors were accused of making methamphetamine in a school lab, sheriff’s deputies said.

A 25-year-old California mother is on the run after she delivered a stillborn baby exposed to toxic methamphetamine levels during the pregnancy, police said.

Police in Australia made a sizzling hot bust after they seized millions of dollars worth of methamphetamine in nearly 800 sriracha sauce bottles.

Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents seized more than 135 pounds of cocaine and methamphetamine at two inland checkpoints about 80 miles from the Mexican border.

Authorities arrested a Tennessee man named Tupac Shakur for allegedly possessing methamphetamine and pulling a knife on an officer.