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Zapata Border Patrol seizes drugs

By Ray Gomez

Story Created: Aug 25, 2009

Story Updated: Aug 25, 2009

Zapata Border Patrol agents seize more than two hundred pounds of marijuana.
Agents were patrolling a ranch north of San Ygnacio and spotted these cellophane wrapped bundles lying in the brush.
The agents searched the immediate area and found three more similar bundles.
The four bundles contained 273 pounds of marijuana with an estimated street value of 218-thousand dollars.
The marijuana was turned over to the Drug Enforcement Administration.