$640K in Drugs Nabbed at San Clemente Border Checkpoint

U.S Border Patrol agents nabbed about $640,000 in methamphetamine at the I-5 border checkpoint south of San Clemente over the holiday weekend.

Along with almost $500,000 in coke captured on the I-15 Freeway in San Diego County, the total comes to more than $1 million in drugs seized in the last several days, according to a release from the patrol.

Sunday, agents at the San Clemente checkpoint on I-5 stopped a 30-year-old male U.S. citizen driving a 1995 Saturn sedan, the release states. The driver's "nervous demeanor" prompted agents to question him, and he admitted to smuggling narcotics, according to the release. A Border Patrol drug dog confirmed the admission. 

Agents found 18 bundles of meth in the trunk, weighing 31.97 pounds and with an estimated street value of $639,400, the press release states.

Earlier in the week -- Wednesday morning at 10:30 -- agents stopped a 40-year-old female U.S. citizen in a 2002 Ford Explorer at the I-15 checkpoint, the release states. 

She consented to a search of the Explorer by a drug dog, which directed agents to 17 bundles of cocaine inside the rear cargo bin, according to the release. 

The bundles weighed 44.97 pounds and had an estimated street value of $494,670, according to the release.

The suspected smugglers, drugs, and vehicles were turned over to the Drug Enforcement Administration in both instances.