Abandoned Backpacks Filled With $1.1 Million in Cocaine Found In Wooded Area Near Canadian Border: Police

U.S. Border Patrol agents found 78 pounds of cocaine worth an estimated $1.1 million in two abandoned backpacks near the Canadian border. (Credit: Customs and Border Protection)

U.S. Border Patrol agents found 78 pounds of cocaine with an estimated value of $1.1 million stuffed into two abandoned backpacks near the Canadian border last week.

The agents in the Blaine Sector, which monitors the western part of Washington, Oregon and Alaska, found the black backpacks on the ground in a wooded area near Lynden, Wash., on Dec. 19, Customs and Border Protection said in a news release.