HIDALGO — U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Field Operations (OFO) at the Hidalgo and Anzalduas International Bridges hampered the smuggling of methamphetamine and heroin worth $3,786,000 in two separate, unrelated incidents this past weekend.
“These were two significant interceptions of hard narcotics that our frontline officers accomplished this weekend at two of our international bridges,” said Port Director Carlos Rodriguez, Port of Hidalgo/Pharr/Anzalduas. “I commend our officers’ rock-solid commitment to CBP’s border security mission and great teamwork that allowed them to detect these drugs.”
On Nov. 30, 2019 CBP officers assigned to the Hidalgo-Reynosa International Bridge referred a 25-yearold female ...