10 Most Bizarre Items Found at U.S. Border Checkpoints

— June 14, 2014 Comments Off 1983

2. Coming Clean

In 2010, a man bringing a washing machine into the United States from Mexico was discovered to have hidden nearly 70 pounds of pot inside the machine. We’ve all heard of laundering money, but this may be the first time someone tried to launder their drug shipment.

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