Story Created:
Mar 16, 2010
Story Updated:
Mar 16, 2010
Officers with the US Customs and Border Protection agency seize nearly two million dollars worth of cocaine over the weekend.
It happened on Saturday at the Lincoln-Juarez Bridge after a CBP agent referred a 1996 GMC van to secondary inspection.
A canine unit alerted officers to drugs in the fuel tank.
There, agents found 25 bundles holding cocaine weighing in at 61 pounds and an estimated street value of $1.9 million.
Officers seized the drugs and the vehicle.
The driver, a Mexican national, was turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
