Tag: U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)

California Border Patrol Finds 27 Pounds of Meth in Booster Seat

U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents in Murrieta, California, arrested the driver of a car carrying 27 pounds of methamphetamine hidden in child booster seats, authorities announced June 17. The suspect, a U.S. citizen, was driving on Interstate 15, north of a Border Patrol station, on June 15. “Drug smugglers will use any means necessary…


Border Officers Arrest Multiple People Smuggling Fentanyl ‘Within Their Bodies’

People have been caught at various border entry points in El Paso, Texas, over the past week trying to smuggle fentanyl into the United States “within their bodies,” authorities say. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers say that in the three days to June 10 they identified and stopped “significant drug loads on a…