Canine nose and x-ray equipment help bust potential smuggler | Crime

It might have been modern technology that found the stash, but it was a good old fashioned nose that sniffed it first.

Yesterday a canine unit, with the Nogales Border Patrol alerted to a potential drug smuggling vehicle.  Agents working the I-19 checkpoint conducted a secondary inspection on a vehicle the canine agent alerted to earlier.

The secondary inspection was conducted using x-ray equipment, which enabled the agents to find two bundles of marijuana weighing about 50 pounds and valued at $25,000.  The bundles were concealed in an aftermarket compartment. 

Both the drugs and the vehicle were seized and the driver and alleged smuggler was arrested.