Nogales, Arizona - U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at Arizona’s Port of Nogales arrested a Mexican national for attempting to smuggle methamphetamine into the United States Tuesday, worth nearly $13,000.
CBP officers at the Morley Pedestrian Crossing referred a 43-year-old woman for further inspection Tuesday morning. When an officer searched the woman’s purse, two packages of were found and determined to be meth, as well as a third package which was removed from the subjects undergarments. The drugs weighed more than four pounds, with an estimated value of nearly $13,000.
Officers seized the drugs. The subject was turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations following her arrest.