{"id":216531,"date":"2021-03-12T20:15:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-13T01:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=216531"},"modified":"2021-03-12T20:15:03","modified_gmt":"2021-03-13T01:15:03","slug":"u-s-customs-and-border-protection-seize-1-3m-of-methamphetamine-disguised-as-spinach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-customs-and-border-protection-seize-1-3m-of-methamphetamine-disguised-as-spinach\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Customs and Border Protection seize $1.3M of methamphetamine disguised as spinach"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fu-s-customs-and-border-protection-seize-1-3m-of-methamphetamine-disguised-as-spinach%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=216531&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 id=\"attachment_2386406\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2386406\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo by Eduardo Munoz Alvarez\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 5:10 PM PT \u2013 Friday, March 12, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized more than $1 million worth of methamphetamine in Southern California. Officers at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/newsroom\/local-media-release\/over-13-million-worth-narcotics-seized-otay-mesa\">Otay Mesa facility<\/a> in San Diego arrested a 49-year-old man who was driving a tractor with a trailer full of what he said was spinach, but was really $1.3 million of methamphetamine.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">On Wednesday, CBP officers at the Otay Mesa commercial facility discovered over $1.3M worth of methamphetamine hidden within a shipment of fresh spinach, wrapped in paper with pictures of spinach.<\/p>\n<p>Details \u27a1\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BJk4pVP1aR\">https:\/\/t.co\/BJk4pVP1aR<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1RAh9VfjGC\">pic.twitter.com\/1RAh9VfjGC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CBP (@CBP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBP\/status\/1370530804342923269?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 13, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Border officials inspected the shipment and found 127 wrapped packages of meth mixed with boxes of spinach that weighed almost 600 pounds.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BIG RIG BUST: A <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Mexican?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Mexican<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/trucker?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#trucker<\/a> will face <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/charges?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#charges<\/a> after being <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/busted?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#busted<\/a> hauling more than a load of fresh <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/spinach?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#spinach<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read more \u2935\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qHbMKU9H3B\">https:\/\/t.co\/qHbMKU9H3B<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TransportationNation (@TNationNetwork) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TNationNetwork\/status\/1370451601849249799?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 12, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The driver was transported to the Metropolitan Correction Center and will face federal charges.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/national-park-service-rejects-request-for-4th-of-july-fireworks-display-at-mount-rushmore\/\">National Park Service Rejects Request For 4th Of July Fireworks Display At Mount Rushmore<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Photo by Eduardo Munoz Alvarez\/Getty Images) OAN NewsroomUPDATED 5:10 PM PT \u2013 Friday, March 12, 2021 U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized more than $1 million worth of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2275656,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216531","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=216531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2275656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}