A U.S Customs and Border Safety official stands among the many lanes of vehicles getting into the San Ysidro Port of Entry on Thursday, Might 11, 2023, in Tijuana, Mexico. (AP Photograph/Gregory Bull)
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Two California ladies who say they went to Mexico to see a dentist are in federal custody for allegedly attempting to drive again with 72 kilos of methamphetamine hidden of their automobile.
Mireya Rodarte and Yumili Flores drove as much as an inspection sales space on the San Ysidro Port of Entry final week and instructed a U.S. Customs and Border Safety officer they went to Rosarito, Mexico, to eat, store and get some dental work executed.
As the ladies have been being interviewed and their citizenship paperwork verified, the CBP officer acquired an alert on his pc and directed Flores to drive the 2013 Ford Explorer to a secondary inspection space. Courtroom paperwork present a canine officer detected the presence of narcotics within the Explorer; an X-ray scan of the automobile revealed irregularities on the roof.
Data present CBP officers discovered a hidden compartment on the roof and pulled 12 packages with a complete weight of 32.9 kilograms (72.5 kilos) of a substance that examined constructive for methamphetamine.
Throughout separate interviews with federal officers, Rodarte and Flores denied realizing the automobile they drove carried hid medication. The ladies caught to their account they went to Mexico to see the dentist and have been driving again to Vista, California, information present.
The ladies have been positioned in federal custody and charged with felony importation of a managed substance, in line with a criticism filed in U.S. District Courtroom for the District of California. A preliminary detention listening to has been set for Feb. 22 earlier than U.S. Justice of the Peace Decide Steve B. Chu in San Diego.