14,000 pounds of pot found at Falfurrias checkpoint

By Katherine Rosenberg
Corpus Christi Caller Times
Posted June 28, 2010 at 8:23 p.m.

CORPUS CHRISTI — Border Patrol agents confiscated more than 14,000 pounds of marijuana in one day at the Falfurrias checkpoint.

That seizure was just one of several in the agency’s Rio Grande Valley Sector in the past week, resulting in the confiscation of more than 18 tons of marijuana, valued at close to $30 million, according to a news release.

In Falfurrias, drug dogs alerted officers to the marijuana, officials said.

The overall seizures represent an increase of nearly 8 percent in the sector from the same period in 2009.

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