Mexican Nationals Face Drug Charges After Being Apprehended Smuggling Dozens Of Pounds Of Marijuana

Two Mexican citizens have been apprehended and charged after being caught carrying dozens of pounds of marijuana close to a Texas highway.

According to Border Report, the men were found by U.S. Border Patrol agents in Jeff Davis County after receiving alerts from surveillance camera operators.

Agents drove to an isolated spot and noticed the men, who ditched the backpacks and ran away. They were caught four hours later, with court records showing that Manuel Ivan Soto Delgado and Francisco Baca Baca had crossed into the country illegally. They are now facing charges of possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance.

CBP routinely details drug seizures near the border. One such recent episode took place in late July, when 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."

A week earlier 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. 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.