Mexican traffickers tried to hide more than 600 kilos of methamphetamine in white onions.
They now only have their eyes to cry on, because the flair of the American customs officers has foiled their scheme.
The semi-trailer filled with a load of onions, in which the drugs were hidden, was stopped at a Californian border crossing and a sniffer dog immediately gave the alert.
Among the thousands of very real onions, the customs officers discovered nearly 1,200 small packets of powder with white packaging to which the traffickers had given the shape of bulbs to fool the police.
NEW: CBP agents in San Diego found nearly 1,200 packages of meth hidden in a shipment of onions on a tractor trailer.
The meth was packed into small white globes, disguised to look like onions.
1,336 lbs of meth seized.
$2.9 million street value.
MX citizen arrested.
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Merchandise estimated at nearly $3 million
"It was not only a cunning attempt to smuggle narcotics, which I had never seen before, but it also took them a long time to package the narcotics like this," said Sidney Aki, of the service. San Diego Customs, Southern California.
According to customs, the approximately 600 kilos of methamphetamine have a resale value of $2.9 million.
Proof of the creativity of drug traffickers, US customs also announced that they had intercepted 2 kilos of marijuana, which were hidden in boxes of breakfast cereals, shipped to Great Britain from the State of Kentucky.
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