US Border Drug Bust-a-Palooza!

Cartels are singing "Smuggler's Blues"

Aug 05, 2025

As Human Trafficking continues at all-time low levels along the Southern Border with Mexico, U.S. authorities continue turning up the heat on cartel drug smugglers. They are racking up some big busts in the process.

In the Rio Grande Valley town of Mission, Texas, US Border Patrol Agents and Texas Department of Public Safety State Troopers raided a suspected "stash house". They seized $1.5 million in cocaine and arrested illegal aliens from Nepal, El Salvador, and Guatemala, as well as two suspected cartel human smugglers.

Boxes filled with $1.5 million worth of cocaine were seized at a South Texas "stash house." (US Border Patrol photos & graphic)

While, on Sunday, August 3, 2025, US Customs & Border Protection (CBP) Officers on the Anzalduas International Bridge seized more than $1.1 million in fentanyl and cocaine crossing into South Texas, from Reynosa, Mexico. The drugs were hidden inside a shipment of exercise equipment.

From Oct. 2024 to July 2025, CBP Officers have stopped more than 9,000 pounds of fentanyl from being smuggled into the country.

This $1.1 million load of fentanyl and cocaine was seized on the Anzalduas International Bridge in Mission, Texas. (US Customs & Border Protection photos)

Meanwhile, in Louisville, Kentucky, CBP Officers recently intercepted a $138,000 shipment of Ketamine as it entered the country, intended for delivery to California. The seized drug load weighed in at 23 pounds.

23 pounds.of Ketamine with a street value of $138,000 seized at the Port of Louisville, Kentucky. — 23 pounds of Ketamine with a street value of $138,000 seized at the Port of Louisville, Kentucky. (US Customs & Border Protection photo)

Marijuana Smugglers are also having a hard time moving their loads around the country. On Sunday, August 3, 2025, a Lewisville, Texas Police Officer making a routine traffic stop pulled over a vehicle that reeked of raw weed - and for good reason. He and a backup officer soon discovered 285 pounds of marijuana hidden throughout the vehicle and took the Georgia driver into custody.

The department could barely find a table large enough to display the load to reporters.

The Lewisville, Texas Police Department seized 285 pounds of marijuana during a routine traffic stop. (Lewisville Police Department photo)

On the same day, CBP Officers at Dulles International Airport in Washington, DC, stopped a Las Vegas woman from boarding a flight to Frankfurt, Germany, after her checked luggage was found to contain 50 vacuum-sealed packages filled with 59 pounds of weed.

This 59-pound load of weed on its way to Germany didn't make it past CBP Officers at Dulles International Airport. (US Customs & Border Protection photos)

CBP Officers at Los Angeles International Airport recently dashed the high hopes of a London-bound female smuggler when they found 55.57 pounds of marijuana in her luggage.

CBP Officers also stopped almost 56 pounds of weed packed in London-bound luggage at Los Angeles International Airport. (US Customs & Border Protection photos & graphic)

While at Chicago O'Hare International, CBP agents inspecting the carry-on and checked luggage of a couple bound for Brazil discovered a virtual pharmacy of prohibited drugs: baggies of Ketamine, Ecstasy, Cocaine, and Marijuana, as well as 72 pounds of Hashish!