An alleged shipment of ‘baby wipes’ stopped at the U.S.-Mexico border turned out to be $11.8 million worth of cocaine.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers made the seizure at the Colombia-Solidarity Bridge in Laredo, Texas, on Friday, August 26. The drugs were spotted when a trailer truck claiming to be full of baby wipes was sent for a second inspection by officers from CBP’s Office of Field Operations.
Officers used a sniffer dog and technology to discover that the vehicle actually contained 1,935 packages containing between them some 1,533 pounds of cocaine. They seized the illicit shipment, which is being probed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement-Homeland Security Investigations.
