In what sounds like the plot of a Netflix Original series, two teenagers from a small Arizona border town were arrested over the weekend by U.S. Border Control agents after they were found with nearly $2 million worth of narcotics in their pickup truck during a vehicle check.
According to a statement made Tuesday by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, agents patrolling the desert near the Nogales/Mariposa Port of Entry on Saturday observed several people emerge to leave packages in a parked truck. Minutes later, agents conducted a vehicle check and discovered 57 packages of what is suspected to be meth, cocaine, and heroin concealed inside the vehicle. The narcotics totaled around $1,889,600 in street value.
“We've gotten larger seizures, but this one no doubt is sizable, and it is significant,” said Border Patrol agent Daniel Hernandez in a statement. “The street value is pretty high.”
While the identity of the teens has yet to be revealed, both passengers in the vehicle are 18-year-old residents of Rio Rico, Arizona, and the two are expected to face federal charges.
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The individuals who loaded the trucks have not yet been identified by authorities.
According to Hernandez, this specific area of the border, the Nogales/Mariposa Port of Entry, is usually known as a marijuana passage. “That is declining, and now we're seeing with greater frequency harder narcotics and synthetic narcotics,” he explained.
