U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) exclusively told The Epoch Times on Friday that its officers at the Laredo sector of the U.S.–Mexico border intercepted more than $72.3 million worth of methamphetamine from separate encounters in the same day.
The two large-scale enforcement actions occurred on June 19, the agency said, becoming the latest encounter that adds to a historic amount of illegal narcotics seized at the border and throughout the country this fiscal year by CBP.
At the World Trade Bridge entry point in Laredo, Texas, an agent referred a Dodge Ram stake-bed truck for a secondary inspection. According to CBP, the vehicle’s shipment was labeled as carrying polypropylene, or a commonly used compound for manufacturing plastic products. …