Border agents recover $1.3 million in marijuana

Nov. 1, 2010 11:58 AM
Associated Press

TUCSON - Border Patrol agents working a desert area in southwestern Arizona Sunday recovered 1,700 pounds of marijuana worth an estimated $1.3 million.

The government says agents used thermal camera technology and watched suspected smugglers carrying what appeared to be bundles of marijuana.

A horse patrol unit and members of the Marine Corps. responded Sunday.

They apprehended four people and 33 bundles of marijuana weighing more than 1,700 pounds. The suspected smugglers and marijuana were seized and taken to the Ajo Station for processing.

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