C.B.P. News Release

CBP Officers at El Paso, Texas Border Make Huge Heroin Seizure

(Tuesday, November 24, 2009)

El Paso, Texas - U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the El Paso port of entry seized 29.6 pounds of heroin in a single seizure Monday. Two residents of New Mexico were arrested in the bust.

“In the last two years area CBP officers seized a total of 44 pounds of heroin. Seizing two-thirds of that total in a single incident is an exceptionally important seizure,â€