Texas Border: Cartel Cash & Drug Seizures Soar in June

This month's theme song: "Smuggler's Blues"

Jun 23, 2025

Homeland Security Investigations & Customs & Border Protection Agents seized $900,000 in cash at the Anzalduas Port of Entry in Mission, TX — Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) & Customs & Border Protection (CBP) Agents seized $900,000 in cash at the Anzalduas Port of Entry in Mission, TX (HSI Photo)

June has been a costly month so far for Mexican cartels attempting to smuggle cash and drugs across the Texas border. US authorities have reported seizing more than $1.7 million dollars worth of Cartel Cash and more than $15 million dollars worth of Mexican Meth and Cartel Cocaine.

Let's start with the seizures of all that cash, comprising cartel profits from its illegal US operations, which southbound smugglers attempted to return to Mexico, until US Federal Agents caught them. The largest seizure occurred in Mission, Texas, at the Anzalduas Port of Entry to Reynosa, Mexico. US Customs & Border Protection (CBP) Agents & Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) seized $900,000 in an operation about which very little information is being released.

Two US citizens were arrested for attempting to smuggle $815,745 in cash into Mexico via the Anzalduas International Bridge. (US Border Patrol Photos & Graphic)

We know quite a bit more about the seizure of $815,745 in cash, again at the Anzalduas International Bridge on June 16, 2025. US Border Patrol (USBP) Agents and CBP Officers discovered 56 bundles of cash totalling $815,745 inside a 2025 Honda Odyssey being driven by a US citizen. The Border Patrol says that a U.S. citizen passenger was also arrested.

Now for those big drug busts:

On June 10, 2025, CBP Officers at the Pharr International Bridge inspecting a truckload of Mexican produce arriving at the Texas border discovered 166 packages containing 753 pounds of meth hidden within that shipment. The drugs have an estimated street value of $6,740,100.

$6,740,100 worth of meth was discovered inside a load of Mexican produce arriving in Pharr, Texas on June 10, 2025. (US Customs & Border Protection photo)

On June 3, 2025, at Laredo's Colombia-Solidarity Bridge, a CBP Officer inspected a supposedly empty trailer and discovered 149 packages containing 363 pounds of cocaine hidden inside. The drugs have an estimated street value of $4,851,052.

$4,851,052 worth of cocaine was discovered inside an "empty" trailer crossing into Laredo, Texas, on June 3, 2025. (US Customs & Border Protection photo)

On Monday, June 9, 2025, CBP Agents at the Pharr Port of Entry requested assistance from Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) Special Agents to help inspect a tractor-trailer crossing into the state driven by a Mexican driver they suspected of being a drug smuggler. The DPS agents found a false compartment in the vehicle’s trailer containing than 390 bundles of methamphetamine. The methamphetamine has an estimated street value of more than $2.4 million.

$2.4 million worth of meth was discovered inside a tractor-trailer crossing into Texas at the Pharr Port of Entry on June 9, 2025. (Photo from Office of Texas Governor Greg Abbott)

Finally, on June 14, 2025, CBP Agents on the Juarez-Lincoln Bridge in Laredo, Texas, discovered eight packages containing 112 pounds of methamphetamine hidden inside a 2013 Mitsubishi Outlander being driven by a Mexican citizen. The street value of the drugs was $1,036,912.