Customs officials seize cheese wheels filled with cocaine at Texas border via KSLcom
An X-ray scan of the cheese revealed "anomalies," which upon further inspection turned out to be 17.8 pounds of cocaine concealed inside the wheels, Customs and Border Protection said in a statement.
"Smugglers will sometimes try to conceal contraband in items that appear innocent to deflect suspicion," Daniel Mercado, director of Customs and Border Protection at the Presidio Port said. "The thorough and extensive inspections performed by CBP officers stopped this unusual drug load from reaching its intended destination."
Customs officers in El Paso seized 146 pounds of cocaine hidden in an ice cream maker last month. Officials at New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport found $450,000 worth of cocaine inside the wheels of a woman's wheelchair last November. Combined by weight, seizures of cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin, fentanyl, and marijuana increased 7% from May to June, according to Customs and Border Protection.
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