Over $3 million price of cocaine present in cargo of limes

OTAY MESA, Calif. (FOX 5/KUSI) — Greater than $3 million price of onerous narcotics was found in a cargo of limes on the Otay Mesa Industrial Car Enforcement Facility final week, U.S. Customs and Border Safety (CBP) officers mentioned in a launch on Monday.
CBP says officers stopped a 42-year-old man, a sound border crossing cardholder, who was driving a business tractor-trailer carrying a cargo of Persian limes simply earlier than 11:30 a.m. on Thursday.
A CBP Okay-9 unit alerted officers to examiner the trailer extra carefully.
After additional examination, officers found a complete of 158 suspicious packages which had been later recognized as packages of cocaine, weighing 435 kilos and value round $3,355,800.
All topics had been transferred to Homeland Safety Investigations (HSI).
The narcotics, semi-truck and trailer had been seized by CBP officers.