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BP Seizes Cocaine During Rush Hour
By cbp.gov
Published: 06/15/2009

BP Seizes Cocaine During Morning Rush Hour at Tecate

Tecate, Calif. — During the morning rush hour this week, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Tecate port of entry seized 37 pounds of cocaine, with a street value of about $371,000, hidden in a secret compartment in the dashboard of a car.

On June 10, at approximately 5:05 a.m., a CBP officer referred a 2008 Jeep Patriot driven by a 19-year-old, male U.S. citizen for a more thorough inspection.

After a detector dog alerted to the dashboard of the car, a subsequent gamma ray scan of the vehicle confirmed that there were anomalies in the vehicle’s firewall.Read more.


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