The drug cartels in Mexico will go to great lengths to smuggle illegal narcotics into the United States, but Wednesday they failed at their mission.
As Border Patrol agents were monitoring the border with the remote video surveillance systems near Calexico, California around 3:00 in the morning when they witnessed two subjects launching a raft with several bundles of suspected narcotics into the All American Canal. As they continued to monitor the area a pick-up truck disguised as an Imperial Irrigation District vehicle approached and stopped, at which time the two subject on the raft proceeded to load the bundles into the the bed of the truck. Once loaded, the truck drove away from the area and the two subjects returned to Mexico.
Later the disguised pick-up truck was stopped and the fifteen bundles in the bed were identified as marijuana, totaling 128 pounds with an estimated value of $102,936.00. The driver, a 20-year old male Mexican citizen with a B1/B2 visa border crossing card was taken into Border Patrol custody. The driver, pick-up truck, and marijuana were turned over to the Drug Enforcement Administration.
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