{"id":10262,"date":"2021-05-19T07:41:13","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T07:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci028377ae20002458"},"modified":"2021-05-19T07:41:13","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T07:41:13","slug":"meth-totaling-5-5-million-was-found-in-several-boxes-mixed-with-medical-supplies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/2021\/05\/19\/meth-totaling-5-5-million-was-found-in-several-boxes-mixed-with-medical-supplies\/","title":{"rendered":"$5.5 MILLION OF METHAMPHETAMINE FOUND IN MEDICAL SUPPLY SHIPMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized close to 2,500 pounds of methamphetamine concealed in a shipment of medical supplies in San Diego, CA.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.charlottealertsnews.com\/.image\/c_fit,h_600,w_600\/MTgxMTIwMDMxMTc2Nzk1NDk2\/3-trukkll-blu.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<p>On Saturday, May 15, 2021 a driver entered the Otay Mesa Commercial Facility with a tractor-trailer shipment.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;The cargo was manifested as various medical supplies.  A team of Border Protection officers were roving through the lanes of trucks that had entered the port and were waiting for their inspection.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One officer targeted the truck, driver, and shipment for a more intensive inspection.  The officer referred the driver, truck, and shipment for an x-ray screening.\n<\/p>\n<p>Officers screened the truck using the port\u2019s imaging system and found anomalies within the cargo shipment.  The truck was moved to an inspection dock where an officer with a canine screened the boxes of cargo.<\/p>\n<p>The dog alerted to one of the pallets of medical products.  Officers off loaded the shipment and discovered 120 packages comingled with various medical supplies.<\/p>\n<p>2,425 pounds of methamphetamine worth an estimated $5.5 million was found. The driver, a 29-year-old Mexican male, was arrested and turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homeland Security Investigations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The driver is facing federal charges.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meth totaling $5.5 million was found in several boxes mixed with medical supplies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[105,107,370,371],"class_list":["post-10262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drugs","tag-drug-bust","tag-drugs","tag-meth","tag-methamphetamine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10262","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=10262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}