PHOTOS: Bizarre Border Busts

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by FOX5 Web Staff

Over the years, people have tried some unusual ways to smuggle drugs and people across the U.S.-Mexico border, as photos from U.S. Customs and Border Patrol show.

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(U.S. Customs and Border Protection) A man is discovered sewn into the upholstery of a van seat

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(U.S. Customs and Border Protection) Illegal immigrants found compartments in the floor of a car

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(U.S. Customs and Border Protection) Two people hidden in the engine compartment of a van

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(U.S. Customs and Border Protection) A woman was discovered hidden in the side panel of a car

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(U.S. Customs and Border Protection) An illegal immigrant hidden behind the back seat of a passenger car

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(Customs and Border Protection / December 15, 2010) Border agents find a man hidden under an elaborate camouflage of five-gallon buckets filled with tools. The man’s face has been blurred by Customs and Border Protection in this photo.

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(U.S. Customs and Border Protection / November 6, 2010) Agents find woman in a modified gas tank of a Ford Mustang.

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(October 27, 2010) Five Mexican citizens were discovered at a Border Patrol checkpoint on Interstate 8 hidden under a box mattress frame piled high with furniture in a trailer being towed by a Chevy Suburban.

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(Department of Homeland Security ) Man hidden in the engine compartment of a Dodge truck.

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(October 26, 2010) A U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer inspected the 2007 Chevrolet Trailblazer driven by a 37-year-old man Pueblo, Colorado. Agents said when the officer lifted the carpet covering the rear non-factory floor compartment a 31-year-old man and woman, 19, were found. Both were Mexican citizens without the proper documents to enter the United States.

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(U.S. Customs and Border Protection) In June 2009, Border Patrol agents discovered 73 illegal immigrants crammed in the back of a tractor trailer , when the truck stopped for inspection at the Pine Valley checkpoint on Interstate 8.

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(U.S. Customs and Border Protection) Heroin hidden in the differential of a vehicle

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