Border patrol finds 294 kilograms of cannabis worth an estimated $648,750 - via TheGrowthOp Cannabis news
But as they arrived in the area, the vehicle changed direction, heading back toward the river.
Agents saw the driver jump into the Rio Grande and swim back to Mexico. It is not clear if there were others or, if so, where they went. Another raft and another truck full of weed similarly failed back in June 2021. That time around, the smugglers rafted a Ford Ranger jammed with 256 kilograms of weed across the river, not far from Brownsville.
Upon reaching land, agents and troopers from the Texas Department of Public Safety tried to initiate a vehicle stop, but theAdvertisement 3CBP agents and officers have seized more than 296,000lbs of drugs nationwide during the first five months of FY22.
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