Douglas border agents find $500K hidden in Mexico-bound pickup

Fernanda Echavarri Arizona Daily Star
December 16, 2010 3:59 pm

Customs and Border Protection officers screening traffic inspected the pickup truck driven by a 20-year-old man from Sonora, Mexico and found $480,000 of undeclared currency. .

Immigration officers in Douglas found nearly half a million dollars hidden in a pickup bed headed into Mexico Wednesday evening.

Customs and Border Protection officers screening traffic inspected the pickup truck driven by a 20-year-old man from Sonora, Mexico and found $480,000 of undeclared currency. The booty was hidden in an “elaborately made hydraulic compartment in the side wall of the bed of the truck,â€