EAGLE PASS, Texas — A "gargantuan" amount of meth was seized at the Texas border earlier this week, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
Border Patrol agents were lauded after 6.5 tons of methamphetamine were seized at the Eagle Pass Port of Entry on Sunday, Feb. 18.
The seizure happened as a CBP officer sent a tractor-trailer for a secondary inspection that had a shipment of a drying agent for piglets on its manifest.
Following the inspection, nearly 13,101 pounds of meth were discovered, which is said to have a street value of $117.1 million.
“This gargantuan methamphetamine seizure, the largest ever taken down by CBP officers at a port of entry, uniquely illustrates the serious narcotics threat our officers face on a daily basis," Director Donald Kusser of the Laredo Field Office said.
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Special agents with Homeland Security Investigations will continue to look into the seizure.
“Thanks to the outstanding teamwork between HSI Houston, HSI Eagle Pass, HSI Mexico City and our partners at CBP, we have prevented a record-breaking amount of these narcotics from making it to Houston where they would have destroyed an untold number of lives," Special Agent Mark Dawson said.
Most seized drugs are destroyed under federal law, but samples can be kept as evidence for criminal prosecution. So far, officials have not announced any arrests following the meth bust.
