Border Control Officers Seize Nearly $3 Million in Marijuana from Grey Squash Shipment
TUCSON, AZ – Fresh produce wasn’t the only thing stuffed in these boxes.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in Arizona found a stash of marijuana – worth millions – inside a shipment of Grey Squash coming through the Mariposa Commercial Facility in Nogales on March 1. Approximately 5,700 pounds of marijuana were seized from the shipment and were valued at $2.8 million.
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection press release states that officers found the drugs co-mingled within a shipment of Italian Squash in a tractor-trailer driven by a 45-year-old driver from Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico, after being alerted by a narcotics-detection canine. A source close to AndNowUKnow later clarified that this shipment appears to be better known as Grey Squash, however.
The tractor-trailer has now been seized and the driver has been arrested.
