U.S. Customs and Border Protection discovered the drugs tucked inside the blue spun sugar.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers found more than $7.5 million of marijuana hidden in a shipment of cotton candy.U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers found more than $7.5 million of marijuana Saturday at the Texas border hidden in a most unlikely place: a shipment of cotton candy.
The drugs were discovered at the World Trade Bridge in Laredo, according to a statement from the agency. Considered the, the bridge connects Texas with Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. Officials say a CBP officer stopped a Freightliner tractor-trailer carrying a commercial shipment of cotton candy for additional inspection.
Following a search by drug-sniffing dogs and a nonintrusive inspection system, officers discovered more than 3,300 pounds of marijuana tucked inside the blue spun sugar. No arrests have been made, an agency spokesman said, and Homeland Security agents in San Antonio are investigating the seizure.last year after accepting $3.7 million worth of methamphetamine concealed in cauliflower.on the Laredo–Colombia Solidarity International Bridge.seized more than $35 million in methamphetamine in a commercial truck hauling strawberry purée.. Sarah Bahari is a trending news reporter.
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