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CBP Finds Nearly 1,000 Pounds of Marijuana in Shipment of Scrap Cardboard

San Diego CBP officers seized almost 1,000 pounds of marijuana hidden in a shipment of scrap corrugated cardboard on Aug. 29 at the Otay Mesa cargo facility, CBP said. Upon further examination of a 1999 Freightliner tractor pulling a trailer…

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with the shipment, officers removed some of the cardboard from the top of a bundle and found packages of marijuana within the center. A total of 305 packages with a street value of about $430,000 were found in several bundles.