Border busts
- Courtesy of Customs and Border Protection
- Updated
Two Tucson men were arrest in separate smuggling attempts earlier this week at the Port of Douglas, according to officials.Customs and Border Protection officers seized nearly 400 pounds of marijuana in the two seizures, according to an agency news release. Cesar Abraham Cruz, 23, was arrested after port officers found 156 pounds of marijuana, worth about $78,000, hidden throughout the Jeep he was driving, the CBP said. Sixto Siqueiros-Tolano, 34, a Mexican national living legally in Tucson, was arrested when a CBP drug dog alerted to nearly 240 pounds of marijuana hidden in the Ford SUV he was driving. The drugs were worth about $119,000. The drugs and vehicles were seized. The two men were turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations.
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