Border Drug Seizures Make For Busy Week In Nogales

It was a busy week for the agents of the Customs and Border Patrol assigned to the Port of Nogales. In a series of arrests at the Dennis DeConcini they seized 412 pounds of methamphetamine, cocaine, and heroin. Officials say the drugs were worth an estimated $919,000.

It started on Tuesday when officers 35 pounds of meth, heroin and cocaine, worth more than $201,000, during a secondary inspection of a Chevy truck driven by a 22-year-old Mexican man.

Officers then found an 18-year-old Mexican man driving a Saturn with about 23 pounds of heroin worth about $400,000. He was tripped up by a drug-sniffing dog, says Customs.

Later that morning, a 17-year-old woman from Nogales, AZ., was detained after officers found more than one pound of heroin in her groin area.

Also Tuesday, another woman - this one, a 25-year-old from Rio Rico, AZ. - was also caught with more than one pound of heroin in her groin area.

Then there was a 43-year-old woman from Tucson was found with more than one pound of heroin. In her purse.

Combined those three women had about $60,000 worth of heroin.

The next morning officers found a 23-year-old man from Rio Rico, AZ. driving a Pontiac with 13 pounds of cocaine worth about $148,000 hidden beneath the backseat.

Finally, on Thursday officers found a 28-year-old woman from Tucson driving a Ford SUV with 37 pounds of meth worth about $112,000 in the spare tire.

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