CBP: 19-year-old caught smuggling meth at Highway 86 checkpoint
SALTON SEA, Calif. (KYMA, KECY) - Border Patrol agents arrested a 19-year-old after attempting to smuggle methamphetamine Wednesday evening.
El Centro Sector agents say the woman driving a black Chevrolet Blazer was sent to secondary inspection after approaching the Highway 86 immigration checkpoint.
They say a canine alerted to her vehicle, and that's when agents set her aside to search her vehicle.
Upon searching the car, they found four vacuum-sealed packages of drugs hidden inside a two-car battery booster along with two power converters inside the vehicle.
The packages tested positive for meth, and agents say it weighed 15 pounds with a value of $33,750.
The woman and drugs were turned over to the U. S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
