A drug-sniffing dog helped federal agents uncover more than 231 pounds of marijuana after the dog’s handler inadvertently parked near a car carrying the pot in a San Clemente fast-food parking lot, the U.S. Border Patrol announced Thursday.
The Border Patrol said the chance encounter was one of three big busts federal agents made in Southern California this month, helping agents uncover drugs with a street value that the agency estimated at $2.4 million.
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On June 8, a Border Patrol agent parked his car at a fast-food restaurant and, after he got out of the car, his dog led him to the trunk of a nearby 2011 Toyota Camry. A search of the car turned up nine bundles of pot, weighing 231.28 pounds, with a street value of about $115,000, the agency said.
Then, on Monday, agents at the San Onofre checkpoint along Interstate 5 found 12 pounds of methamphetamine —- with an estimated street value of $240,000 —- when they stopped a car occupied by two men whose demeanor made agents “suspicious,” the agency said. The two men, ages 22 and 21, were U.S. citizens, the agency said.
Next, just after midnight on Tuesday, farther up the coast in Ventura County, federal, state and local authorities arrested 20 people and confiscated more than 4,000 pounds of marijuana after a panga boat was spotted landing on the beach, the Border Patrol reported.
