On Saturday afternoon, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at Arizona’s Port of Lukeville arrested a Phoenix area woman after seizing more than 28 pounds of methamphetamine.
The 19-year-old woman was referred by agents for a secondary inspection of her Nissan sedan as she applied to enter the United States from Mexico. A CBP canine alerted to an odor it is trained to detect, leading officers to the discovery of 25 packages of meth within the vehicle’s rear quarter panels, worth an estimated value of almost $85,000.
Officers arrested the subject and turned her over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations, while the drugs and the vehicle were seized.