Two female Mexican nationals were arrested in separate incidents recently for attempting to smuggle more than 200 pounds each of marijuana, with a combined value of almost 207,000, through the Port of Douglas.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers on Saturday selected a Ford sedan driven by a 25-year-old woman from Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico, for a secondary inspection and found multiple packages of marijuana, worth nearly $106,000, hidden throughout the vehicle.
A few hours earlier, officers referred a 58-year-old woman, also from Agua Prieta, for further inspection of her Ford SUV and found almost 202 pounds of marijuana valued at nearly $101,000.
Both women were arrested and referred to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations. The marijuana and vehicles were seized.