U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers in Texas seized 118.91 pounds of alleged cocaine on Nov. 22, with a street value of over $1.5 million.
In a news release on Thursday, CBP said that Office of Field Operations (OFO) officers assigned to the World Trade Bridge had seized the drugs after one of them referred a 2001 Freightliner tractor-trailer manifesting polypropylene film for a secondary inspection.
A trained dog was then bought in for a non-intrusive inspection system examination, upon which officers discovered a total of 118.91 pounds of alleged cocaine within the trailer, officials said.
In total, the drugs have a combined street value of $1,587,777, CBP said….