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Border Patrol seize nearly 600 pounds of marijuana

Release Date: July 16, 2021 EDINBURG, Texas – Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol Sector (RGV) agents seize approximately $475K worth of marijuana near the Rio Grande in two separate incidents and spotted a subject with a longarm in Mexico during a failed narcotic smuggling event. Yesterday evening, Rio Grande City Border Patrol Station agents working their assigned area near Garceno, Texas, received information of possible narcotic smuggling in the area. Responding agents encountered multiple bundles of marijuana in the cab of an abandoned Ford Expedition near the Rio Grande. No suspects were encountered. The seized bundles weighed more than 479 pounds with ...

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