Authorities have seized roughly 1,336 kilos of methamphetamine disguised as onions in Southern California, U.S. Customs and Border Safety stated Friday. The confiscated medicine are value an estimated $2.9 million, authorities stated.
"This was not solely a intelligent try to try to smuggle in narcotics, one I have never seen earlier than, but additionally time consuming to wrap narcotics into these small packages, designed to seem like onions," Sidney Aki, director of area operations in San Diego, stated in a press release.
On February 20, border patrol officers inspected a tractor trailer carrying a cargo indicated as onions. An officer referred the 46-year-old driver and the gadgets for a "extra intense examination," the place a canine staff screened the tractor trailer. A canine alerted to the cargo, which prompted officers to look it additional.
That is when authorities found nearly 1,200 packages of methamphetamine formed in "small globes with a white protecting" that have been blended with precise sacks of onions, CBP stated.
"Whereas now we have actually seen narcotics in produce earlier than, it is uncommon for us to see this stage of element within the concealment," Aki stated.
The motive force, who's a Mexican citizen, was arrested for the alleged drug smuggling try and turned over to federal companies for extra disposition.