Meth worth over $5M concealed in fake watermelon packaging seized at US-Mexico border
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Otay Mesa Commercial Facility seized more than $5 million in methamphetamine disguised as watermelons.
Authorities said the tractor-trailer was seeking to gain entry into the U.S. at the Otay Mesa Commercial Facility near San Diego. Sarah Rumpf-Whitten is a breaking news writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business.
A secondary point of inspection discovered that, among the shipment of actual watermelons, around 1,220 fake watermelons were found to contain 4,587 pounds of methamphetamine. Story tips and ideas can be sent to sarah.rumpf@fox.com and on X: @s_rumpfwhitten.
Further inspection revealed the illicit drug was carefully packaged in an inflatable-like watermelon disguise.
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