EDINBURG, Texas – U.S. Border Patrol agents seized over four tons of marijuana over the weekend, the agency said in a statement.
According to the statement, an abandoned Ford Expedition was found in the Rio Grande, loaded with more than 1,900 pounds on Saturday.
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The discovery of 1,700 pounds of marijuana was also made at an immigration inspection at the Falfurrias Station after a K-9 detected the odor coming from a trailer.
Several other seizures made over the weekend totaled the confiscation amount to more than 8,000 pounds.
In all, more than $6.4 million worth of marijuana was seized over the past weekend.