Nearly 1,000 pounds of liquid methamphetamine was discovered by federal law enforcement officers this week hidden inside a tractor trailer’s fuel tank in Otay Mesa.<\/p>\n
The drug seizure happened just before 11:30 a.m. Monday after a truck attempted to enter the United States through the Otay Mesa Import Cargo Facility.<\/p>\n
Officials said that after a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer spotted “a white, crystalline substance” on the top of the fuel tank, officers found 944.90 pounds of methamphetamine inside.<\/p>\n
The truck’s driver, a 26-year-old Tijuana man, told officers he agreed to leave the truck in a parking lot in Otay Mesa in exchange for $1,000, according to a criminal complaint filed in San Diego federal court. The driver has since been charged with a federal drug importation offense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nearly 1,000 pounds of liquid methamphetamine was discovered by federal law enforcement officers this week hidden inside a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[7,40528,28973,74,1856,1857,1858,76,75,1855],"class_list":["post-205536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-california","tag-meth","tag-otay-mesa","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-celebrities","tag-san-diego-concerts","tag-san-diego-events","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-san-diego-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}