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Border Agent Drug Busts Total $1 Million over Holiday

By UnionTribune BreakingNewsTeam

7:23 p.m. July 6, 2009

SAN DIEGO — Federal authorities announced Monday the seizure of marijuana, heroin and cocaine worth more than $1 million in three separate busts.

Customs and Border Protection agents found 99 packages of marijuana, weighing more than 315 pounds, hidden throughout a Nissan SUV Saturday morning at the San Ysidro Port of Entry, officials said.

A dog walking through the line of vehicles waiting to enter the United States alerted agents to the drugs, officials aid. Two male Mexicans, ages 19 and 20, were arrested on smuggling charges.

On Friday, Border Patrol agents at a checkpoint on Interstate 8 in Pine Valley discovered 10 bundles of cocaine weighing 26 pounds hidden in the dashboard of a Chevrolet Malibu, officials said. The driver, a 26-year-old man and U.S. citizen, was arrested.

About two hours later, a search of a Dodge Caravan netted eight wrapped bundles of heroin weighing 20 pounds and led to the arrest of a 23-year-old male Mexican, officials said.