{"id":10159,"date":"2021-06-01T20:29:42","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T20:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci0284950d800027cb"},"modified":"2021-06-01T20:29:42","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T20:29:42","slug":"809000-worth-of-cocaine-found-during-drug-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/2021\/06\/01\/809000-worth-of-cocaine-found-during-drug-bust\/","title":{"rendered":"$809,000 WORTH OF COCAINE FOUND DURING DRUG BUST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cocaine with a street value&nbsp;of $809,710 was seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection during 2 enforcement actions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20210526-cocaine-seizure-courtesy-of-cbp-brownsville.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<p>The first seizure took place on Thursday, May 20, 2021 at the Gateway International Bridge in&nbsp;Brownsville, Texas&nbsp;when a 29-year-old female United States citizen applied for entry into the United States driving a 2012 Volkswagen.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle was referred to secondary for further examination. In secondary, with the aid of a canine unit, officers discovered 15 packages hidden within the vehicle. Officers removed the packages, which contained a total of 35.25 pounds of cocaine.<\/p>\n<p>The second seizure took place on Wednesday, May 26, 2021 at the Veterans International Bridge in&nbsp;Brownsville, Texas&nbsp;when a 27-year-old male driving a Freightliner truck approached the border checkpoint.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the truck, there were 29 packages of cocaine hidden. The packages of cocaine weighed a total of 69.75 pounds.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The estimated street value of the narcotics from the seizures are approximately $271,830 and $537,880 respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Officers seized the narcotics along with the vehicles, arrested the drivers and turned them over to the custody of Homeland Security Investigations special agents for further investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bags of cocaine valued at nearly $1 million were discovered in vehicles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[162,99,108,96,102,103,107,220],"class_list":["post-10159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drugs","tag-cocaine","tag-drug-carriers","tag-drug-cartel","tag-drug-haul","tag-drug-mules","tag-drug-truck","tag-drugs","tag-hidden-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}