Customs and Border Protection officers arrested three people involved in separate weekend attempts to smuggle a combined $565,000 worth of cocaine, heroin and meth through the Port of Nogales.
Offices at the Mariposa crossing referred a 53-year-old man from Sapopan, Jalisco, Mexico, for a secondary inspection of his Volkswagen sedan on Dec. 2. After officers found 5 pounds of cocaine worth $60,000, as well as 4 pounds of heroin valued at $75,000, in the dashboard.
Officers working with CBP canines made two seizures on Dec. 4, beginning with nearly 30 pounds of cocaine, worth approx.imately$300,000, and nearly 8 pounds of methamphetamine, worth $20,000, seized from a 27-year-old man from Magdalena, Jalisco, Sonora, Mexico, when he attempted to enter through the Mariposa crossing in a Honda van.
A short time later, officers seized nearly 30 pounds of methamphetamine, worth more than$80,000, and nearly 3 pounds of cocaine, $30,000, from a 23-year-old man residing in Nogales, Arizona, as a Permanent Resident Alien. He was stopped at the Dennis DeConcini crossing driving a Volkswagen sedan.