A 17-year-old Mexican national was arrested and is facing charges of attempting to smuggle nearly 45 pounds of heroin and methamphetamine into the United States.
On Thursday, Customs and Border Protection officers at the Dennis DeConcini crossing in Nogales referred the driver of a Lincoln sedan to a secondary inspection. A drug dog alerted to the presence of drugs and officers found 42 pounds of meth worth about $126,000 and nearly three pounds of heroin worth about $38,000, according to a news release from CBP.
Officers seized the car and drugs. The teen was turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations.
In an unrelated seizure on Thursday, CBP officers at the Douglas crossing seized nearly 171 pounds of marijuana from a Ford SUV. The drugs were hidden in the vehicle's tires, CBP said in a news release. The drugs were worth about $85,000.
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Officers arrested the SUV's driver, Irene Guadalupe Rodriguez-Cortes, 18, of Agua Prieta, Sonora.
