They look like watermelons, but U.S. Customs and Border Protection says they’re packages of meth that were in a truck that a driver was trying to get into the U.S. from Mexico.
The shipment was found at the Otay Mesa commercial facility in California on Friday, August 16. According to CBP, a 29-year-old driver had them in a tractor trailer that was stopped at the border.
Border agents decided to do a secondary check on the driver and the cargo and that’s when they said they found 1,220 packages of meth disguised as watermelons. According to Customs and Border Protection, the meth that the driver hauling had a street value of $5 million.
Border agents took control of the fake fruit and turned the driver over to authorities with Homeland Security.
According to CBP, the seizure is the result of Operation Apollo, which is an effort in California and Arizona to stop the smuggling of fentanyl.