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Customs agents find $5 million in meth disguised as watermelons [1]

['Allan Rose Hill']

Date: 2024-08-21

Last week, a gentleman was driving a tractor trailer of watermelons across the border from Mexico to San Diego. US Customs and Border Protection officers were suspicious so they triggered a closer examination of the load. Turns out the 1,220 watermelons were faux fruit.

"The contents of the packages were tested and identified as methamphetamine, with a total weight 4587 pounds," CBP stated. "The estimated street value of the drugs exceeds $5 million dollars."

The week prior, agents intercepted 629 pounds of meth disguised as celery.

(Thanks, Chanté McCormick!)

Previously:

• This fellow is the first person to be busted smuggling greenhouse gases into the US

• Man busted at airport smuggling two otters and a prairie dog in his underwear

• Six people arrested for smuggling goose guts hidden under rattlesnakes into the US

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