US Border Drug Bust-a-Palooza!
Cartels are singing "Smuggler's Blues"
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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Abrazos,
Jack Beavers
The borders and airports have been spot on. Thank you all for keeping Americans safer. Thanks Jack.
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