SAN DIEGO BORDER AGENTS SEIZE FAKE WATERMELONS THAT WERE REALLY CRYSTAL METH
Drug smugglers tend to look pretty stupid when they get caught at border crossings. But it happens so much, it makes one wonder how many times they don’t look stupid. Because antics like this must work some of the time. How else can you explain disguising over $5 million of crystal meth as watermelons? And $5 million may not seem like a huge drug bust compared to others, but that translates into 1,220 packages of meth that weighed almost 4,600 pounds. That’s a lot of crystal meth. And someone made quite the effort to make 1,220 packages look like watermelons.
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WATERMELONS DELIVERY TRUCK WAS SELECTED FOR SECONDARY INSPECTION
But apparently, they didn’t quite look enough like watermelons to pass muster at the Otay Mesa Port of Entry Commercial Facility in San Diego, California. The driver of the truck with the crystal meth watermelons was an as-yet unidentified 29-year-old who had the misfortune of being selected for a secondary inspection. And obviously that didn’t go too well when border agents pulled the watermelons out of the truck and realized they weren’t all actually watermelons. Once the authorities tested the fake watermelons and identified them as crystal meth, they seized the lot and sent the driver to Homeland Security Investigations.
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GREAT BUTS, OR HOW MANY TIMES HAVE DRUGS DISGUISED AS FRUIT ALREADY WORKED?
But while senior border agents are commending their workers diligence here, I have to still wonder about what this really means. Would they have made this major crystal meth as watermelons bust if not for the secondary inspection? And just how many other trucks filled with fake watermelons that were actually illicit drugs of some kind have already made it across that border crossing? As in, how many this month, year or even decade? And then I have to wonder about how it is that people are smuggling crystal meth into the United States? Don’t we cook enough domestically as it is?
Apparently not.
