Ingenious Drug Traffickers Challenge Immigration Authorities on Mexico's Northern Border Latin American Herald Tribune
go to original March 15, 2014

Z Portal is a multi-view, drive-through vehicle screening system capable of scanning trucks, cars and vans for concealed threats and contraband. (Z Portal)

NOGALES, Arizona – Arizona has become a major point of entry for drugs into the United States, and every day Customs and Border Protection agents must deal with the ingenious ways drug traffickers conceal their goods.

“Organized crime is evolving and just as they evolve, we must also evolve. We have to keep figuring out their tricks, because as soon as we discover one method they’re using, they’re already working on another,” said Marcia Armendariz, spokeswoman for CBP in Nogales.

At the ports of entry at Nogales, Mariposa and DeConcini, drugs have been detected in all kinds of hiding places – gas tanks, car seats, oxygen cylinders, fire extinguishers, radiators, secret compartments, ice trays, baby cribs and Coca-Cola bottles full of marijuana.

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