Published: 11.30.2007
Border Patrol seizes 4,700 pounds of pot
CARLI BROSSEAU
Tucson Citizen
The Border Patrol seized almost 4,700 pounds of marijuana in three loads on the Tohono O'odham Nation on Wednesday and Thursday, the Border Patrol said in a news release.
All three loads, which together were worth about $3.7 million, were found abandoned, the release said. No one was arrested.
Agents found 1,413 pounds in the desert near the village of Hickiwan, about 35 miles east of Ajo, after chasing a pickup truck on Federal Route 34 early Wednesday morning, the release said. The agents lost sight of the truck but followed the tracks to where the 61 bundles of pot had been dumped.
Later that morning, when agents tried to pull over two pickups traveling north in tandem on Federal Route 19, the trucks pulled over outside San Miguel and then sped across the border, according to the release. Fifty-five bundles of marijuana weighing 1,142 pounds were found near the turnaround point.
At 7 a.m. Thursday, a San Miguel resident called to report another load that had been hidden on his property, the release said. Agents found 89 bundles of marijuana weighing 2,132 pounds near milepost 5 on Federal Route 19.
The marijuana was turned over to the Drug Enforcement Administration, the release said.

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