US Customs Service Found 1100 pounds (almost half ate) of methamphetamine in the Party of Watermelon in California. About it reports The New York Post.
Officers stopped a truck with a trailer at the entrance to the city of Otay Mesa. During the inspection of the car among fruit boxes, kennels found 193 polyethylene packages with drugs. According to approximate estimates, the cost of confiscated substances is about 2.5 million dollars.
Truck driver was arrested. He was charged federal charges. Police sent it to the capital correctional center in San Diego.
Fruits are often used as a disguise with international drug trafficking. At the same time, criminals or simply hide cocaine in boxes, or carefully mask the goods, putting the darkens filled with drugs into real fruits. On May 21, it was reported that the Police of Ecuador found 805 cocaine briquettes in the cargo of bananas. Party of drugs were going to send to Russia and Belgium.