Mexico Trucker Online

Editors Note: It goes to show ICE is on the ball on the border. This article also illustrates how drugs are smuggled across, and in 99.9% of the cases, a Mexican truck is not involved. Usually just someone trying to make an extra buck. 

U.S. Border Patrol agents, in separate actions, confiscated $14.3 million in cocaine and marijuana over the weekend.In the first case, agents found 366 pounds of cocaine valued at $11.7 million on a Conejo Lines passenger bus.

In a press release, Border Patrol stated a canine indicated the bus when the bus arrived at the Interstate 35 checkpoint, mile 29, at 4 a.m.

The bus was then sent for a routine secondary inspection.

It was there agents found the cocaine in a sports bag.

The driver, a 25-year-old male, was turned over to the Drug Enforcement Administration.

Representatives of El Conejo in Laredo and Dallas did not comment on the confiscation, and said they found out about the bust during telephone calls with a reporter.

In unrelated action, agents with U.S. Customs and Border Protection arrested three people and confiscated cocaine and marijuana at the international bridges over the weekend, according to spokesperson Mucia Dovalina.

The first confiscation took place at 8 p.m. Sunday, with agents finding 56 pounds of cocaine worth $1.7 million.

The cocaine was found in a 2000 GMC pick-up driven by a 23-year-old Laredo man.

Agents found the packages during secondary inspection when they observed irregularities in the cabs ceiling.

Sami, a drug-sniffing K-9, alerted and agents took the truck to an X-ray station where they found 25 packages wrapped in celophane.

The driver, a 23-year-old man, was arrested on federal charges and was transferred to ICE custody.

At a confiscation at the Bridge of the Americas early Sunday, agents arrested a Mexican national who listed an address in Hidalgo, Tamaulipas, driving a 1993 Chevrolet Silverado pick-up.

During a secondary examination at about 4 a.m., agents found one package of cocaine, weighing 15 pounds, lodged near the radiator with the help of canine Sammy.

Street value is estimated at $480,00, Dovalina said.

In a third bust Saturday morning, agents at the Bridge of the Americas found 22 bundles of marijuana in a 1993 Ford F-150 pick-up driven by a 20-year-old Rio Bravo man.

K-9 Jack found the 105 pounds of marijuana, valued at $105,000, and agents located the stash in a wall of the pick-up trucks bed.

While the driver was arrested, the five passengers were released from custody.