Nearly $1 Million in Meth Seized From Truck With False Compartments at US Border

A truck driver transporting cabinets stuffed with methamphetamine was arrested attempting to cross the U.S.–Mexico border, Border Patrol officials said in a July 10 press release. The 29-year-old man, whose name was withheld, was driving a box truck when he was stopped for inspection at the Calexico East Commercial Facility in the afternoon of July 3. Calexico is about 115 miles east of downtown San Diego. Officers used scanning technology to search the truck, finding “irregularities,” which they say were false cabinet compartments used to hide the drugs. Concealed within the wooden cabinets were 49 packages of meth weighing 515.74 pounds and worth $928,000 in estimated street value, according to the press release....