Agents seize $1.6 million in marijuana Thursday
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February 11, 2011 8:37 PM
Naxiely Lopez
The Monitor

More than $1.6 million worth of marijuana was confiscated by U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the McAllen station in multiple seizures Thursday.

The largest of the seizures occurred Thursday night after agents found nearly 700 pounds of marijuana, with a value of more than $540,000, scattered throughout the brush in Abram, according to a news release from the agency.

During a separate incident, agents found more than 460 pounds of pot after they spotted a group of people carrying bundles north from the Rio Grande in Hidalgo, officials said. Two people were apprehended while the rest of the group was seen crossing the river into Mexico.

The drugs were valued at more than $370,000.

Several more seizures pushed the station’s total amount of marijuana confiscated for Thursday to more than 2,000 pounds, agents said. The drugs were turned over to the Drug Enforcement Administration.

Monitor staff writer Naxiely Lopez compiled this report.


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