Authorities in Arizona arrested a Mexican man on Friday after a federal officer found over 2,000 pounds of marijuana hidden in a charcoal shipment trying to cross into the United States on a big rig truck.
Local television station KNXV reports that U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers discovered the drugs at the Port of Mariposa commercial facility in Nogales on the back of a big rig truck by using a standard X-ray scanner, where they found the marijuana hidden in 1,000 bags of charcoal.
The estimated street value of the marijuana confiscated was valued at just over $1 million.
The man who attempted to smuggle the drugs, aged 44, has not yet been identified. He was arrested and handed over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations.
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