Last week, a gentleman was driving a tractor trailer of watermelons across the border from Mexico to San Diego. US Customs and Border Protection officers were suspicious so they triggered a closer examination of the load. Turns out the 1,220 watermelons were faux fruit.
"The contents of the packages were tested and identified as methamphetamine, with a total weight 4587 pounds," CBP stated. "The estimated street value of the drugs exceeds $5 million dollars."
The week prior, agents intercepted 629 pounds of meth disguised as celery.
(Thanks, Chanté McCormick!)
Previously:
• This fellow is the first person to be busted smuggling greenhouse gases into the US
• Man busted at airport smuggling two otters and a prairie dog in his underwear
• Six people arrested for smuggling goose guts hidden under rattlesnakes into the US
