C.B.P. News Release

CBP Officers Seize Suitcase Full of $400K in Heroin at Hidalgo Port of Entry

(Tuesday, July 07, 2009)

Brownsville, Texas – U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Hidalgo port of entry seized $408,000 in heroin and detained a 33-year-old female.


On July 6, CBP officers at the Hidalgo International Bridge referred Gwendolyn Robles Medina, a 33-year-old Mexican citizen and resident of Guadalupe, Nuevo Leon, Mexico for CBP secondary inspection. Robles Medina arrived at the Hidalgo crossing as a passenger in a taxi coming from Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico.

In secondary during an intensified examination CBP officers discovered discrepancies to a suitcase belonging to the Robles. An imaging system scan indicated anomalies within the suitcase. “Laika,â€