Report: 5,701 pounds of marijuana found

Published: Feb. 15, 2008 at 12:21 PM

FALFURRIAS , Texas, Feb. 15 (UPI) -- U.S. Border Patrol officials at a checkpoint in Falfurrias, Texas, seized nearly 3 tons of marijuana hidden in a shipment of pineapples.

Agents said the found 132 marijuana bundles with a combined weight of 5,701 pounds, on a tractor-trailer after they were alerted by a drug-sniffing dog, the Corpus Christi (Texas) Caller-Times reported.

The approximate worth of the marijuana is more than $4.5 million, U.S. Customs Officials said.

Police reportedly arrested the 33-year-old driver of the tractor-trailer, who is an El Paso, Texas, resident and U.S. citizen, and turned him over with his vehicle and the drugs to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

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