Texas border drug bust seizes meth, heroin price $1.3 million

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A drug bust earlier this month on the Los Indios Worldwide Bridge close to Brownsville, Texas , seized greater than $1.3 million in methamphetamine and black tar heroin from reaching U.S. streets, federal officers stated.

U.S. Customs and Border Safety (CBP) officers assigned to the port of entry seized the medicine on Oct. 6, when a 37-year-old Mexican man tried to enter the U.S. in a 2001 Chevrolet.

After going via a main inspection, officers referred the car to secondary inspection for a more in-depth look. With assist from a drug-sniffing canine and X-ray know-how, CBP officers found packages hidden contained in the automobile.

Officers eliminated the packages and located they contained about 67 kilos of methamphetamine and 42.5 pounds of black tar heroin — with a mixed estimated avenue worth of greater than $1.3 million, officers stated.

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Vehicles run thorugh a gauntlet of high-tech cameras and scanners heading into Mexico from the USA in Brownsville, Texas. (Robert Daemmrich Images Inc/Corbis by way of Getty Photographs)

As soon as the officers seized the medicine, they seized the car and turned the driving force, a Mexican nationwide, over to brokers with Homeland Security Investigations who initiated a prison investigation.

"Our officers work with diligence as they carry out their duties and their efforts led to this vital drug seizure, holding the damaging narcotics from reaching our communities," Brownsville port of entry director Tater Ortiz stated.

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CBP officers found over $1 million in suspected heroin and methamphetamine throughout a secondary inspection at a border crossing in Brownsville, Texas, on Oct. 6. (U.S. Customs and Border Safety)

The bust comes because the Trump administration bolsters efforts to cease the circulate of unlawful medicine into the U.S.

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump introduced that the U.S. army carried out one other strike on a suspected drug vessel off the coast of Venezuela, killing six suspected smugglers.

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The U.S. killed six alleged drug traffickers on a ship in worldwide waters close to Venezuela, President Donald Trump introduced Tuesday. (realDonaldTrump/Fact Social)

Trump stated on Fact Social that intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking narcotics and was related to illicit " narcoterrorist networks ."

The White Home despatched lawmakers a memo on Sept. 30, informing them that the U.S. is collaborating in a "non-international armed battle" with drug smugglers. The newest strike on a narcotics vessel comes on the heels of 4 different deadly strikes in opposition to alleged drug boats within the Caribbean since September.