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Customs and Border Protection (CBP) seized over $17.4 million in methamphetamine from a tractor-trailer hauling a shipment of coconuts at the Mexico-Texas border. The bust is one of many involving cartels slipping drugs across the border in fresh food shipments from Mexico, which is the largest supplier of vegetables to the U.S. What Happened: While CBP officers conducted a secondary look at the tractor-trailer, their drug-detection doggies sniffed out 378 packages containing nearly 2,000 pounds of meth, which they seized then Homeland Security agents moved in to conduct a criminal investigati…

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