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 News from Around the Americas | March 2008 
Tucson Border Patrol Makes Big Drug and Immigration Bust
 Deborah Stocks - ABC15
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| | Marijuana bust near Nogales | | |
Border Patrol Agents assigned to the Tucson area seized over 200 bales of marijuana and arrested dozens of Mexican Nationals who illegally entered the country in a 24-hour period this week.
Border Patrol agents found 60 Mexican Nationals hiding in a small Rio Rico home, south of Tucson, Monday night.
They had entered the U.S. illegally, according to a Border Patrol report.
Five were held for prosecution for ‘alien smuggling’, and three vehicles were seized for being involved in the crimes.
Later Monday night, a Border Patrol agent and his service canine partner found 78 bundles of marijuana hidden in tractor-trailer carrying vegetables at the Interstate 19 checkpoint near Nogales.
According to the report, the bundles, weighed nearly 1,700 pounds.
Early Tuesday morning, another agent and his K-9 were at the I-19 checkpoint near Nogales and found another 124 bundles of marijuana hidden between pallets of squash and bell peppers.
This drug seizure weighed almost 2,700 pounds.
This drivers and the marijuana from both seizures were transferred to the Drug Enforcement Agency for prosecution.
In the last five months, Tucson Sector agents have made 112,070 apprehensions and seized 191 tons of marijuana.
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