$700,000 in narcotics seized at border | Crime

Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents seized marijuana and heroin Wednesday, worth a combined value of nearly $700,000. 

On a routine transportation check of a passenger shuttle, Nogales station agents questioned a mexican male, wearing a backpack beneath his jacket. When the backpack was inspected there were suspicious bundles wrapped in black tape. These bundles turned out to be brown heroin, with a value of almost $82,000. The drugs were seized and taken to the Nogales station for further processing.  The suspect, a Nogales, Sonora native is facing possible federal charges.

Meanwhile, agents assigned to the Ajo Field Training unit were conducting training operations close to the Village of Gu Vo, when they responded to a possible drug trafficking.  They found concealed beneath some rocks, 25 backpacks full of marijuana.  The drugs had a total weight of 1,195 pounds, worth an estimated $597,500.  The agents moved the drugs to the Ajo station for further processing.  There were no suspects taken into custody, according to a Border Patrol news release.