CBP Seizes Almost 300 Pounds Of Meth Hidden Inside a Solar Panel: 'We Do This Every Day'

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced on Monday that agents seized almost 300 pounds of methamphetamine inside solar panels.

In a social media publication, the agency noted that the substance was seized at Los Angeles airport LAX. The shipment was headed for New Zealand but had been flagged "based on prior intel and intercepted before export."

"We do this every day. These 'Criminal masterminds' never stood a chance," the publication adds.

The agency often details seizures concealed in different shipments. Last week, it announced it seized $15 million worth of the drug inside a tractor trailer transporting carrots.

The incident took place the prior week at the Pharr International Bridge cargo facility in Texas. There, an officer referred the trailer for further inspection, which ended up with the discovery of more than 300 packages of the drug with a combined weight of some 774 kilos. The agency added that the estimated street value of the drug stands above $15 million.

In late June, agents seized over a dozen pounds of fentanyl hidden inside a crock-pot filled with meat.

The incident took place in a port of entry in Nogales, Arizona, when agents became suspicious after seeing a person attempting to enter the country with a large crock-pot filled with meat.

Earlier in June, a man was sentenced to more than 10 years in prison for attempting to smuggle methamphetamine inside cabbage heads.

The man, Jose Angel Ibarra-Rojas, was found guilty of possessing with intent to distribute close to $3 million worth of meth. Concretely, he has been sentenced to 11 years in prison.

In April, U.S. Customs and Border Protectionofficers in Pharr intercepted more than 1,000 pounds of methamphetamine hidden in a shipment of chayote squash. The cargo, valued at $8.9 million, was concealed in 3,770 packages inside a tractor-trailer arriving from Reynosa, Mexico.

Back in November, CBP officers at the same Pharr facility uncovered a $31 million shipment of methamphetamine hidden among serrano peppers. That load, weighing approximately 2,155 pounds, was also found inside a tractor-trailer entering from Mexico and flagged after an X-ray scan raised suspicions.