Thread: Harlingen bus sniff yields $1.7 million in ecstasy

Harlingen bus sniff yields $1.7 million in ecstasy

By Lynn Brezosky - Express-News

BROWNSVILLE — A Border Patrol agent and his drug-sniffing dog working the Harlingen bus station found $1.7 million worth of ecstasy in an unclaimed suitcase, Customs and Border Protection said Wednesday.

The seizure occurred Monday. The dog reacted to the smell of narcotics coming from a suitcase in the luggage compartment of a commercial bus. When no one claimed the suitcase, the agent opened it and found 47 pounds of the pills, which were identified as ecstasy.

Ecstasy is a synthetic, psychoactive drug that is chemically similar to the stimulant methamphetamine and the hallucinogen mescaline.

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