EDINBURG – Since Friday, Border Patrol agents seized nearly 700 pounds of marijuana and nine pounds of cocaine.
On Friday morning, Brownsville agents on patrol observed several shoe prints on a border road just north of the Rio Grande. Agents followed the shoe prints and they encountered several bundles of marijuana and three suspected drug smugglers in a nearby neighborhood. The marijuana weighed more than 148 pounds, worth an estimated $118K. Border Patrol processed the subjects accordingly. The Drug Enforcement Administration took custody of the narcotics.
Later that day, McAllen agents received information of suspected drug smuggling activities in Havana, Texas. As ...