Dogs help detect nearly 6 tons of meth hidden inside squash shipment in California

Law enforcement officials — with the help of sniffer dogs — seized nearly six tons of methamphetamine hidden within a shipment of green squash this week, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said. 

The illicit substance was discovered inside 1,419 packages within the squash shipment, the agency said in a news release. 

The shipment was found in a commercial tractor-trailer being driven by a 44-year-old man on Monday evening. When CBP officers at the Otay Mesa port in San Diego, California encountered the man, they requested that his truck undergo further examination, the agency said.