TECATE : Border Agents Make Record Pot Seizure
The U.S. Border Patrol on Monday morning made the largest single seizure of marijuana in the agency’s 68-year history.
About 2 a.m., agents discovered nearly 4,000 pounds of marijuana with an estimated wholesale value of $3.15 million, packed in a semi-truck trailer in a vacant lot northwest of the Tecate Port of Entry, spokesman Steve Kean said in a report. No arrests were made.
The truck trailer was found when agents followed several sets of footprints about 200 yards west of the port of entry, leading 100 feet north of the border, Kean said.
The agents followed the tracks to the 60-foot trailer parked in a vacant lot, and inside found 66 bales of marijuana wrapped in black plastic trash bags, weighing 3,960 pounds, the report says.
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