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CBP Makes Massive Meth Seizure at California Border Crossing

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized nearly 1.4 tons of methamphetamine in a routine commercial truck inspection at a California border crossing.

The seizure points to a broader trend of transnational criminal networks using legitimate trade infrastructure to smuggle industrial-scale narcotics into the United States.

On April 14, CBP officers with the Otay Mesa Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Facility in San Diego, California, referred a 2017 Freightliner Cascadia and its trailer, driven by a Mexican citizen, for secondary inspection after the truck arrived at the crossing from Mexico. According to CBP, the shipment manifest declared the cargo as corrugated cardboard boxes. However, officers found 300 packages of methamphetamine concealed within the........

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