{"id":9123,"date":"2024-08-27T08:47:09","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T08:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/meth-haul-disguised-as-watermelons-fails-to-fool-us-border-agents\/"},"modified":"2024-08-27T08:47:09","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T08:47:09","slug":"meth-haul-disguised-as-watermelons-fails-to-fool-us-border-agents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/meth-haul-disguised-as-watermelons-fails-to-fool-us-border-agents\/","title":{"rendered":"Meth haul disguised as watermelons fails to fool US border agents"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The drugs were concealed in coloured wrapping to resemble watermelons<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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United States border agents have intercepted a truck carrying more than $5m-worth of methamphetamine at the US-Mexico border hidden inside a shipment of watermelons. <\/p>\n

The drugs were wrapped in plastic painted in two shades of green to resemble the fruit and placed among real watermelons.<\/p>\n

More than two tonnes of methamphetamine – in a total of 1,220 packages – was seized by officers.<\/p>\n

Stashing drugs among produce is a common way to smuggle the illicit substances across borders – banana shipments are the most popular but officers have recently found narcotics in Gouda cheese and avocados.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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US Customs and Border Protection officials said their officers had stopped a truck hauling a trailer at the border with Mexico in Otay Mesa.<\/p>\n

The paperwork suggested the driver was transporting a shipment for watermelons, but a inspection revealed the parcels containing methamphetamine. <\/p>\n

Also known simply as meth, it is a powerful and highly addictive stimulant. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In total, border agents found 1,220 parcels containing meth<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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The driver was handed over to Homeland Security officials. <\/p>\n

The seizure came a week after officials at the same border crossing discovered almost 300kg of meth in a shipment of celery.<\/p>\n

Both hauls came to a total value of $6m, according to CBS News<\/a>, the BBC’s US partner.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The meth in the celery shipment was discovered by a sniffer dog<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Mexican drug cartels are the leading producers and suppliers of methamphetamine to the United States.<\/p>\n

In February, Mexican security forces seized more than 40 tonnes of the drug at the biggest lab to be discovered in recent years.<\/p>\n

Mexican officials said the lab boasted more than 200 centrifuges, boilers and condensing chambers – key equipment used to make the chemical.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


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