Posted on 03/26/2024 10:41:54 AM PDT by Red Badger
It's a good idea to wash carrots after they're pulled from the ground because they might have some dirt on them. They don't typically come with more than a ton of methamphetamine, but you can never be too careful.
A 44-year-old truck driver is in federal custody after he allegedly tried to cross into the U.S. from Mexico at the Otay Mesa border checkpoint in San Diego with roughly 3,000 pounds of meth hidden amid a large shipment of carrots.
The driver arrived in a commercial tractor trailer just before noon on March 17 with a valid border crossing card and a shipping manifest that said he was hauling carrots, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a news release.
But a secondary inspection revealed suspicious packages hidden underneath the bunches of carrots — exactly 574 packages that tested positive for methamphetamine, according to officials.
The meth and the truck were seized, and the driver, who was not identified, was turned over to the Department of Homeland Security for further investigation, officials said. The seizure was part of an ongoing operation at the border, dubbed Operation Apollo, focused on stopping fentanyl and other synthetic drugs from being smuggled into the U.S.
The carrot caper is the just latest chapter in a saga of creative means to get illegal drugs over the southern border — albeit the one richest in Vitamin A.
Agents at Otay Mesa found over 400 pounds of cocaine stashed in a shipment of cucumbers in September with a street value of over $5 million, Customs and Border Protection said in a news release.
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HOORAY USCBP agents at the port.
How long before he’s release and given the royal treatment with free everything?
Even the “Inky” ones?......................
that’s probably the same look Harris gets when looking at P3n!s3s
Should have dragged him out of the cab and shot him on the spot.
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He might just be an innocent truck driver.............
“He might just be an innocent truck driver….”
The odds of that are pretty small. Anyway, it would encourage future drivers to check their loads more carefully.
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Heh, you got there before you even finished posting, well done!
Pars ..as it is known on the street .is a bad scene.
“One carrot makes you larger
And another carrot makes you small
And the carrots Mother gives you
Don’t do anything at all!”
Go ask Alice.........
Ha.
Wish I had never started. Then I wouldn’t have to go to meetings as a recovering rutabaga addict.
So this is a trend? Carrots and before that broccoli?
On Peter Gunn and later in Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason with Renee Zellweger there were narcotics hidden in statues being exported. She was framed and then thrown in a Thai prison.
“Go ask Alice
When she’s ten feet tall”
That’d be about right for a meth rush?
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