Border Patrol seize $3.7 million in marijuana

Border Patrol agents in southern Arizona recently seized an estimated $3.7 million in marijuana, according to an official statement.

Agents intercepted more than than 7,500 pounds of marijuana between January 21 and 28 in the Border Patrol's Tucson sector.

The biggest find was in Nogales. Border Patrol agents were following a citizen's report regarding a discrepancy in the manifest at Citizen's Express Line Warehouse in Nogales, where authorities say 4,220 pounds of marijuana were found. Agents and members of the Nogales Police Department took custody of the drugs, which were worth an estimated $2.1 million, according to an official statement.

Other instances, according to Border Patrol:

- 788 pounds. At about 6 p.m. Wednesday, agents noticed a Chevy Tahoe acting suspiciously before turning off a road into a thicket. Inside that vehicle were 788 pounds of marijuana.

- 2,000 pounds. The marijuana was found while agents were investigating reports of an abandoned Suburban on Wednesday evening.

- 500 pounds. Agents patrolling near the village of Newfield followed a white pickup-truck driving parallel with the border on Jan. 21. When the occupants noticed the agents following them, they abandoned the trunk, which was found to contain more than 500 pounds of marijuana, worth an estimated $256,000.

































- 2,215 pounds. Nogales police officers found marijuana hidden among bell peppers in a tractor trailer that was crossing into the U.S. on Thursday.

- 157 pounds. Two Mexican nationals in a Ford truck were arrested Wednesday at the Port of Naco after agents discovered 74 packages of marijuana hidden in the vehicle's doors, rear seats and spare tire. The marijuana was valued at $54,000.- 127 pounds. Customs and Border Protection officers in Douglas found $63,000 in marijuana concealed in a Chevrolet sedan Thursday.

The Tucson Sector Border Patrol seized 971,180 pounds of marijuana in 2014, according to the Arizona Border Patrol's twitter account.