Border Patrol Recovers Abandoned Backpack with Meth
El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents discovered a discarded backpack containing meth after attempting to apprehend a man who made an illegal entry near downtown Calexico.
In the early hours of the morning on Monday, a Border Patrol Agent saw a man make an illegal entry into the United States by climbing over the international boundary fence.
The agent also observed that the man was wearing a backpack. Agents attempted to apprehend the man, but was unable to contact him. As the agents searched for the man near an apartment complex, they found the backpack the man was carrying.
In it, border patrol agents discovered eight cellophane-wrapped packages of methamphetamine. The methamphetamine weighed 8.124 pounds, with an estimated street value of $32,496.
No arrest was made and the narcotics were turned over to the Drug Enforcement Administration for further investigation.
From the beginning of the fiscal year 2017, which started on Oct. 1, 2016….El Centro Sector has seized more than 72 pounds of methamphetamine.
