U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers assigned to the Port of Douglas arrested a Willcox woman and a Douglas man during separate marijuana seizures May 7.
Officers arrested the 67-year-old man after a CBP narcotics-detection canine alerted to the presence of drugs within his Chrysler van. Officers retrieved 264 packages of marijuana, weighing nearly 290 pounds and valued at almost $145,000.
Earlier, officers apprehended a 26-year-old woman after a secondary inspection of her Chevrolet van turned up 31 packages of marijuana, weighing more than 31 pounds and worth nearly $16,000, in the vehicle’s spare tire.