A Mexican man was detained while attempting to smuggle hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of meth into the U.S. inside a cooler, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) informed.
The agency noted that the incident took place on August 31, when an officer directed the man's car to a secondary inspection at a port of entry in Eagle Pass.
Drug-sniffing dogs then discovered some 27 pounds of meth worth over $2 million, as well as 2.3 pounds of cocaine.
Such incidents are shared by the agency on a regular basis. A recent case took place when a Mexican woman was caught while attempting to smuggle dozens of kilos of meth inside a truck's fuel tank.
The woman was caught while attempting to enter the U.S. through the Paso del Norte, which connects Ciudad Juarez and El Paso, Texas.
"Officials spotted 60 packages weighing more than 31 kilos inside the fuel tank of a vehicle attempting to enter the U.S.," said the agency in a statement.
Another case in the U.S. involved almost 300 pounds of the substance inside solar panels.
In a social media publication in late July, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) 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.
A week prior CBP 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.
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