Border Officers Seize $12.1 million in Cocaine

Updated: Friday, 12 Nov 2010, 8:35 AM MST
Published : Friday, 12 Nov 2010, 8:35 AM MST

NOGALES, Ariz. - Border officers in the southeastern Arizona city of Nogales made three separate cocaine seizures worth a combined $12.1 million in one day.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection said that on Tuesday, officers were screening traffic coming from Mexico when they chose a tractor-trailor driven by a 34-year-old man for further inspection. A drug dog found 381 pounds of cocaine hidden in the vehicle's fuel tanks.

A few hours later, officers were inspecting the vehicle of a Mexican man, his wife, and their two children when a drug dog detected 31 pounds of cocaine hidden in a door panel.

Soon after that, a drug dog detected 22 pounds of cocaine in the cargo area of a vehicle driven by a 21-year-old Mexican man.

http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/dpp/news/cr ... in-cocaine