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Today in Found at the Border: Pot-smugglers are now short $1.2 million worth of product after trying to hide their stash in a load of jalapeños.
This is hardly surprising, as the pot-in-the-jalapeños plot is one of the oldest tricks in the book of Mexican drug-smuggling.
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According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the 50-year-old Mexican truck driver had a load of pot totaling more than 2,400 pounds he tried to bring through Nogales on Wednesday. A drug-sniffing dog did him in, according to the agency.
Perhaps there’s some sort of theory going around the drug-smuggling community that dogs will get confused by the scent of peppers, which obviously isn’t true.
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We’ve documented several cases of people trying to hide pot or other drugs in shipments of jalapeños (example 1, example 2), bell peppers, and even a guy who tried to get himself over the border by hopping into a pile of chili peppers.
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