Backpacks full of $1.1 million worth of cocaine found in wooded area near border with Canada

Agents on patrol discovered two backpacks stuffed with more than $1.1 million worth of cocaine in Washington state near the border with Canada, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Monday. 

The agents were out last Thursday in a wooded area in Lynden, located in northwest Washington, near a port of entry, when they spotted two black backpacks lying on the ground, officials said in a news release. They searched the backpacks and found 30 brick-like packages of a white, powdery substance. 

After testing the substance, officials determined that it was cocaine and turned it over to the Drug Enforcement Administration. Under federal law, most seized drugs are destroyed, though some samples are retained as evidence for criminal prosecutions.