Border Patrol seizes $1.6 million in pot in So. Arizona

Arizona Daily Star
Tuesday, September 6, 2011 10:00 am

A lucrative week for the Border Patrol working the Arizona desert. Agents seized 3,200 pounds of marijuana worth more than $1.6 million in several unrelated incident.

Government agents tracking suspected illegal immigrants Sunday found six bundles weighing less than 279 pounds and valued at $139,000.

In another incident Sunday, agents responded to a detection sensor and found five bundles of abandoned marijuana weighing more than 218 pounds. The bundles were estimated to be worth approximately $109,000.

Agents also recovered bundles of marijuana during routine searches last week. One search produced 75 bundles of marijuana weighing 1,840 pounds and valued at $920,000. Another search recovered 53 packages pot worth $156,000.

Federal agents also recovered 282 pounds of pot with a value of $140,500.

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