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Sunday 22 of December 2024

Border Patrol Seizes $3M Destined for Mexico


Customs and Border Patrol Port Director for San Ysidro Sidney Aki (R) speaks to the media during tour of the new pedestrian port of entry from Mexico to the United States in San Ysidro, California, U.S. June 30, 2016,photo: Reuters/Mike Blake
Customs and Border Patrol Port Director for San Ysidro Sidney Aki (R) speaks to the media during tour of the new pedestrian port of entry from Mexico to the United States in San Ysidro, California, U.S. June 30, 2016,photo: Reuters/Mike Blake
The Border Patrol found more than $3M packed in boxes in a car trunk

ESCONDIDO, California — The Border Patrol says it has arrested two men they believe tried to smuggle $3 million in cash into Mexico from California.

The agency says its agents tracked and stopped a Kia Forte in Escondido on Tuesday and found nearly $34,000 stashed in the car’s center console.

Authorities say another car sped off as the first vehicle was stopped but it was later found abandoned nearby. That car, a Volkswagen Passat, had more than $3 million packed in boxes in the trunk.

The driver was found hiding in some brush.

Both men — one a U.S. citizen and the other from Mexico — were arrested on suspicion of currency smuggling.