Feds seize $200,000 being transported to Mexico
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March 01, 2011 8:34 AM
The Brownsville Herald

Federal officers say they seized $200,000 from a man trying to smuggle the money into Mexico.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers and Border Patrol agents confiscated nine bundles of U.S. currency Wednsday at the B&M International Bridge.

According to a statement, the officers sent a Mexican national who lives in Brownville to secondary inspection, where officers discovered $200,018 hidden in a 2009 Dodge Ram pickup.

CBP officers seized the money and truck. The 39-year-old driver was turned over to agents with the ICE Homeland Security Investigations unit.

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