{"id":1777096,"date":"2022-12-16T06:30:26","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T11:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1777096"},"modified":"2022-12-16T06:48:11","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T11:48:11","slug":"border-patrol-agents-make-historic-meth-seizure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/border-patrol-agents-make-historic-meth-seizure\/","title":{"rendered":"Border Patrol Agents Make Historic Meth Seizure"},"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\">14<\/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-agents-make-historic-meth-seizure%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=1777096&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/social_media_share\/public\/2021-10\/GettyImages-1009102682.jpg?h=199d8c1f&#038;itok=ZaoegZag\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>U.S. Customs and Border Patrol announced the confiscation of more than 3,000 pounds of liquid meth, making it the third-largest seizure of\u00a0methamphetamine to date in the agency&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p>Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol agents at a checkpoint in Texas found the stash after referring a tractor-trailer to a secondary inspection area to question the driver&#8217;s immigration status, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/newsroom\/local-media-release\/rgv-agents-interdict-third-largest-methamphetamine-seizure-usbp\">agency said <\/a>Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Agents eventually discovered\u00a01,440 bottles labeled as household cleaning products that were instead filled with liquid meth, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The street value of the 3,036 pounds of seized meth is nearly $100 million, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This historical seizure is a prime example of our Agents\u2019 efforts to continuously impact and degrade Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCO) exploiting the Rio Grande Valley,&#8221; said Gloria Chavez, the chief Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol agent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Overall drug seizures by pound have decreased every year since President Joe Biden took office, and last fiscal year about 175,000 pounds of methamphetamine were seized, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/newsroom\/stats\/drug-seizure-statistics\">federal data<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Customs and Border Patrol announced the confiscation of more than 3,000 pounds of liquid meth, making it the third-largest seizure of\u00a0methamphetamine to date in the agency&#8217;s history.Rio Grande Valley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1416521,"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":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[4967,5458,3811,9511,9509,6705,3819,9510],"class_list":["post-1777096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-agents","tag-bongino","tag-border","tag-historic","tag-meth","tag-patrol","tag-report","tag-seizure"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777096","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=1777096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1416521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1777096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1777096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1777096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}