Federal agents say they seized more than a quarter-million dollars in cocaine from a San Benito woman accused of trying to smuggle the narcotics into the United States.
Federal agents say they seized more than a quarter-million dollars in cocaine from a San Benito woman accused of trying to smuggle the narcotics into the United States.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the B&M International Bridge in Brownsville discovered the cocaine on Tuesday, July 4, when they ordered the 22-year-old woman to undergo a secondary inspection of her black 2009 Hyundai Sonata.
Officers say the cocaine weighed 36.24 pounds and had a street value of $279,480.
