{"id":273200,"date":"2010-02-03T12:12:47","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T17:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0128775a48e7970c"},"modified":"2010-02-03T12:12:47","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T17:12:47","slug":"marijuana-seized-in-banana-shipment-at-san-diego-border-crossing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/273200","title":{"rendered":"Marijuana seized in banana shipment at San Diego border crossing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a857fe67970b-pi\" style=\"DISPLAY: inline\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bananas -- Yellow\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a857fe67970b \" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a857fe67970b-500wi\"><\/img><\/a> <br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<p>U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in San Diego found more than $1 million worth of marijuana hidden in a shipment of bananas at the Mexico border, officials said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>A drug-sniffing dog alerted officers to the shipment Monday when a 40-year-old Mexican truck driver applied to cross into the United States at the Otay Mesa cargo facility, the agency said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>When officers opened the boxes in the truck, they found 235 packages of marijuana weighing nearly a ton hidden among bunches of bananas, the statement said. Officers seized the marijuana, which is worth an estimated $1.17 million.<\/p>\n<p>The driver was arrested by agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, 315 packages of marijuana weighing 3,877 pounds were found hidden in a shipment of peppers and beans at the cargo facility.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Alexandra Zavis <\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Part of the shipment of bananas in which marijuana was found. Credit: U.S. Customs and Border Protection<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in San Diego found more than $1 million worth of marijuana hidden in a shipment of bananas at the Mexico border, officials said Wednesday. A drug-sniffing dog alerted officers to the shipment Monday when a 40-year-old Mexican truck driver applied to cross into the United States at the Otay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}