Customs and Border Protection brokers on Monday seized over a ton of meth that smugglers had been hauling in a trailer crossing the bridge from Mexico into Loredo, Texas.

A CBP officer on the bridge flagged for a secondary inspection a white 2011 Chevrolet Silverado hauling a trailer with a manifest for a cargo of plaster. When drug-sniffing canine alerted on the trailer, the brokers discovered greater than 2,135 kilos of methamphetamine, or simply over 1 ton of the drug, contained in the cargo of plaster.

It had a road worth of  $19 million.

The medicine had been seized by CBP. Homeland Security Investigations is trying into the incident. CBP didn't present particulars in regards to the driver of the pickup truck or the fees he faces.

“Frontline officers at the Colombia-Solidarity Bridge demonstrated exceptional effort in successfully disrupting this drug smuggling attempt,” Port Director for the Laredo Port of Entry Alberto Flores stated in an announcement.

The bridge’s identify doesn't check with the Mexican city of Colombia, positioned throughout the Rio Grande from Laredo.

Correction: In a earlier model of this text, the headline described the Customs and Border Protection brokers incorrectly.

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