San Luis CBP officers seize meth and weapons
United States and Border Protection officers at the Arizona Port of San Luis arrested three citizens and a Mexican national in connection to a pair of smuggling attempts over the weekend.
The first incident happened when officers working outbound inspection operations with members of the Yuma County Sheriff and San Luis Police referred a 25-year-old man and two U.S. citizen male passengers in his Honda sedan for additional questioning as they attempted to exit the United States Saturday afternoon.
After a San Luis Police Department canine alerted an odor it was trained to detect, officers discovered a stolen Glock pistol with an empty magazine beneath the passenger seat, which was found to be reported stolen out of Maricopa County.
The second incident happened on the morning of July 15, when officers discovered multiple packages of meth weighing more than 14 pounds, with an estimated worth of almost $43,000 within the backseat of a Hyundai sedan, after a 19-year-old man attempted to re-enter the U.S. from Mexico.
Officers seized the drugs, weapons and vehicles. All four subjects were arrested and turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations.
