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

— June 14, 2014 Comments Off 1983

4. Cleaning Up

Some drug runners in 2010 apparently had not received the memo warning them that trying so smuggle drugs in various compartments of cars was not the best idea. Agents working a the Calexico, California border crossing discovered a motorist driving an SUV that had 18 pounds of liquid methamphetamine in the windshield washer reservoir. What might sound like a fairly small amount of the liquid was worth some $198,000.

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