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Apparently stashing methamphetamine in shipments of laundry detergent isn't a fullproof strategy. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers earlier this month seized more than 1,000 pounds of meth inside a tractor trailer hauling detergent across the Texas-Mexico border , the agency announced Friday.
The action occurred Aug. 11 at the Roma International Bridge, a crossing between Roma, Texas, and Cuidad Miguel Aleman in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas. The town of Roma, whose historic district includes several structures built in the mid-19th century, is about 55 miles west of McAllen.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) noted a "noninstrusive imaging system" found anomalies in the detergent shipment inside the 2012 tractor trailer. Ultimately officers found 240 packages with about 485.78 kilograms (or 1,070 pounds) of methamphetamine. Its street value is an estimated $9.57 million.
The drugs, tractor-trailer and driver were all turned over to the Roma Police Department; an investigation is ongoing.
Back on June 15, CBP officers announced they seized $10 million worth of narcotics inside a Volvo at the World Trade Bridge in Laredo. In that discovery, they came up with about 1,100 pounds (or 489 kg) of methamphetamine. In another find on June 19 on the same bridge, officers found more than 7,000 pounds of meth inside a Dodge Ram.
Meanwhile that same day over on the Pharr International Bridge between Pharr and Reynosa, Mexico, officers found about 1,000 pounds of drugs inside a tractor-trailer.
There are 28 Texas-Mexico border crossings , including 12 road crossings and one ferry crossing between Roma and the Gulf of Mexico.
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