A big rig hauling a trailer carrying nine tons of marijuana – boxed and and piled on pallets and worth $14.76 million – was stopped Friday at the San Clemente Checkpoint, officials said.
U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to San Clemente Station’s Commercial Vehicle Interdiction Squad stopped a tractor-trailer with the marijuana inside.
A 43-year-old U.S. citizen about 12:50 p.m., was stopped as he drove a 2006 truck pulling a 53-foot trailer through the I-5 checkpoint in San Clemente.
Border Patrol agents questioned the man and directed him to the secondary inspection area, according to CBP Agent Ralph A. Desio.
In the secondary inspection area, a Border Patrol drug-sniffing dog alerted cops to the presence of drugs in the trailer.
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