{"id":1688585,"date":"2022-10-13T19:47:18","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T23:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1688585"},"modified":"2022-10-14T08:59:55","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T12:59:55","slug":"border-patrol-seizes-pumpkins-filled-with-400000-of-liquid-meth-stashed-inside-condoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/border-patrol-seizes-pumpkins-filled-with-400000-of-liquid-meth-stashed-inside-condoms\/","title":{"rendered":"Border Patrol Seizes Pumpkins Filled With $400,000 Of Liquid Meth Stashed Inside Condoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fborder-patrol-seizes-pumpkins-filled-with-400000-of-liquid-meth-stashed-inside-condoms%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1688585&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents confiscated pumpkins filled with over $400,000 of liquid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/methamphetamine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">methamphetamine<\/a> stashed inside more than 100 condoms Tuesday at the Eagle Pass Port of Entry in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said the pumpkins were among Halloween decorations that were not what they seemed upon discovering the narcotics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur frontline CBP officers have seen just about everything and this Tuesday was no exception as they encountered liquid methamphetamine hidden within pumpkins,\u201d Acting Port Director Elizabeth Garduno <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/newsroom\/local-media-release\/cbp-officers-seize-402k-liquid-methamphetamine-eagle-pass-port-entry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>. \u201cThey utilized their training, experience, interviewing skills and uncovered a rather novel narcotics smuggling method in the process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Border officers encountered a 2012 Ford Escape arriving from Mexico at the Camino Real International Bridge when authorities referred the driver and passenger for a secondary inspection.<\/p>\n<p>The inspection led to officers finding nearly 44 pounds of alleged liquid methamphetamine \u2014 estimated at $402,196 \u2014 concealed within 136 condoms inside four pumpkins within the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Following the narcotics seizure, authorities turned the driver and passenger over to the custody of Maverick County Sheriff\u2019s Office deputies for further investigation.<\/p>\n<p>ABC News <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/400k-meth-found-pumpkins-border-crossing-inspection-agents\/story?id=91463448\">reports<\/a> that in the fiscal year 2022, border patrol authorities seized 161,000 pounds of methamphetamine. In the previous fiscal year, the agency seized 192,000 pounds of meth.<\/p>\n<p>Transporting narcotics inside Halloween decorations wasn\u2019t the only creative way smugglers have attempted to bring the drugs over the border.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Arizona border agents said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBPPortDirNOG\/status\/1580604612024754178\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweet<\/a> that they found 2,100 fentanyl pills hidden inside tamales in an ice chest at the Nogales Port Of Entry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEach tamale contained a baggie of blue pills hidden inside,\u201d Port Director Michael W. Humphries <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBPPortDirNOG\/status\/1580604612024754178\">said<\/a>. \u201cExcellent work by officers and K9 teams maintaining a high level of vigilance.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents confiscated pumpkins filled with over $400,000 of liquid methamphetamine stashed inside more than 100 condoms Tuesday at the Eagle Pass Port of Entry in Texas. Authorities said the pumpkins were among Halloween decorations that were not what they seemed upon discovering the narcotics. \u201cOur frontline CBP officers have seen &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1890292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Border Patrol Seizes Pumpkins Filled With $400,000 Of Liquid Meth Stashed Inside Condoms","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1688585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Border Patrol Seizes Pumpkins Filled With $400,000 Of Liquid Meth Stashed Inside Condoms","fifu_finder_url":"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/border-patrol-seizes-pumpkins-filled-with-400000-of-liquid-meth-stashed-inside-condoms","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1688585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1890292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1688585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1688585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1688585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}