Pot-packed lawnmowers trendy among smugglers - SignOnSanDiego.com: "latest trend in smuggling pot across the border appears to be stuffing it inside lawnmowers. For the second time in recent weeks, inspectors have discovered marijuana packed into lawmowers from which the blades have been removed.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Otay Mesa border station found Thursday’s load inside two lawnmowers in the bed of a 1996 Dodge Dakota pickup driven by a Riverside resident who attempted to drive across the border about 5:30 a.m.
Drug-sniffing dogs alerted officers to the truck as the driver, a 48-year-old man who is a Mexican citizen, waited in line. Inside the lawnmowers were 21 packages of pot weighing 53 pounds. The driver was arrested and taken to County Jail.
On March 30, officers at the San Ysidro port of entry arrested a 21-year-old man in an almost identical incident, with 91 pounds of marijuana stuffed into two bladeless lawnmowers in the back of a 1995 Dodge Dakota."
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