Woman caught trying to transport drugs using car gas tank

Border Patrol agents arrest a woman who tried to smuggle drugs across the Highway 86 checkpoint Friday, using her car’s gas tank.

At approximately 12:50 p.m. El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents say a woman approached the border patrol checkpoint in a white Ford F-150. As the vehicle approached, a border patrol K9 team alerted to the vehicle and it was then sent to secondary inspection.

At the secondary inspection there was another alert from the K9. Agents say they used a fiberscope camera to search the vehicle’s gas tank, where numerous anomalies were found.

Agents say they determined that there were 23 sealed plastic bags with liquid meth, and one bag containing fentanyl pills.

The 23 bags containing meth had a combined weight of 196-pounds with an estimated value of $612,000. The one bag containing fentanyl had 1,000 pills weighing at one-pound, at an estimated value of $25,000.

“Liquid meth and fentanyl are two of the most dangerous illegal narcotics being smuggled into the United States,” said Acting Chief Patrol Agent Ryan J. Scudder . “Fortunately, our agents were able to successfully seize these drugs and keep them out of our communities.”