$1.6 Million Of Cocaine Seized At Texas-Mexico Border

CBS Dallas/Fort Worth

August 25, 2021

Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents are keeping busy, having busted three narcotic smuggling attempts of more than 130 pounds of marijuana and over 50 pounds of cocaine.

On Friday afternoon, August 20, Fort Brown Border Patrol Station agents working in Brownsville observed two people illegally enter the United States, one of which was carrying a bundle of marijuana. When agents approached the men, they quickly abandoned the bundle and fled back to Mexico. The bundle of marijuana weighed 23 pounds with an estimated street value of more than $18K.

The next evening, agents saw a man carrying a bundle on his back walk away from the river and further into the U.S. Responding agents found two people and two bundles of marijuana weighing more than 110 pounds. The marijuana has an estimated street value of $92K. The drug smugglers are citizens of Mexico and Honduras. The case was turned over to Starr County Sheriff’s Office.

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