Every day, drug mules exploit our porous southern border, bringing in substances that inflict immeasurable harm on the most vulnerable members of our society. Their efforts only serve to further enrich their cartel overlords, who profit from this misery.
But it’s not every day that these drugs are discovered in such an unusual form. This time, nearly $6 million worth of methamphetamine was found hidden inside fake watermelons.
Fox News has more details on the seedy discovery by Border Patrol.
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents grew suspicious of a 29-year-old man who was driving a commercial tractor-trailer filled with watermelons.
Authorities said the tractor-trailer was seeking to gain entry into the U.S. at the Otay Mesa Commercial Facility near San Diego.
A secondary point of inspection discovered that, among the shipment of actual watermelons, around 1,220 fake watermelons were found to contain 4,587 pounds of methamphetamine.
Further inspection revealed the illicit drug was carefully packaged in an inflatable-like watermelon disguise.
The Border Patrol’s interdiction follows closely on the heels of a record-breaking seizure by the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) in Atlanta. There, agents confiscated 2,585 pounds of methamphetamine, marking the largest bust in the city’s history.
Robert J. Murphy, the DEA special agent in charge of the Atlanta office, commented on the significance of the seizure. He noted that the sheer size of the bust reflects the growing “confidence” of Mexican cartels operating on U.S. soil.
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