Cartel’s 378 Pound Meth Stash Hidden in Tomatillo Shipment Seized at U.S. Border
In today’s episode of “Things You Definitely Didn’t Expect,” U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at the Otay Mesa Commercial Facility in California made a spicy discovery over the weekend. Get…
Nigeria’s new seaport aims to become African shipment hub
By Camillus Eboh ABUJA – Nigeria expects to become an African hub for transshipment with a new deep seaport set to open in the commercial capital of Lagos before the end of…
Rio Tinto got Rusal shipment weeks after vowing to cut Russia ties-data
By Joe Bavier, Clara Denina and Helen Reid JOHANNESBURG – Rio Tinto Ltd received an alumina shipment from Russia’s Rusal in late March, weeks after saying it was severing ties with Russian…
Orlando Man Pleads Guilty In Conspiracy To Receiving $570,000 Cocaine Shipment
Orlando, Florida – United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that Luis Raul Perez Rodriguez (50, Orlando) today pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute controlled substances. Perez…
Organic Baby Porridge, Rice and Special K in Shipment
MEMPHIS – On March 1, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Officers at an express consignment hub in Memphis, Tennessee examined a package described in the paperwork as porridge. The package contained…
Canada will send Ukraine another shipment of military equipment, Trudeau says
– Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday said he told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in a call that Canada will send Ukraine another shipment of highly-specialized military equipment. Trudeau said in…
Baltimore CBP Officers Seize Shipment of 29,000 Counterfeit Water Purifier Filters from China
BALTIMORE – To borrow from the 1960’s rock band The Standells, I want to tell you a story about what Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers found down by the Patapsco River,…
Baltimore CBP Officers Seize Opium Poppy Pod Shipment destined to Cecil County, Maryland
BALTIMORE – Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers intercepted a shipment of poppy pods in Baltimore on Wednesday that were destined to an address in Cecil County, Maryland. Officers inspected the express…
ADM sets record for single soybean shipment from northern Brazil
By Nayara Figueiredo SAO PAULO – U.S. grains merchant Archer-Daniels-Midland Co said on Tuesday it has carried out the largest soybean shipment in the history of the Ponta da Montanha Grain Terminal…
Your Amazon shipment is running late: Amazon truck involved in crash on I-74
GREENSBURG, IN – Your Amazon packages might be a little bit late. An Amazon delivery tractor-trailer was involved in a multiple-vehicle crash that included two tractor-trailers today on I-74 west in Decataur…
Philadelphia CBP Knocks Out Shipment of Dangerous Ketamine Concealed inside Boxing Mats destined to N.C.
PHILADELPHIA – Philadelphia Customs and Border Protection officers were no lightweights when they beat the North Carolina consignee to the punch and delivered a knockout blow to nearly seven pounds of dangerous…
Atlanta man sentenced to prison for attempting to conceal firearms in overseas shipment of household goods
SAVANNAH, GA: An Atlanta man has been sentenced in federal court after admitting he attempted to hide firearms in an overseas shipment of goods. Shawn Sabi, 53, of Atlanta, was sentenced to…
ICE HSI seizes record-setting illegal drug shipment at San Diego land port of entry
SAN DIEGO – Federal agents at the Otay Mesa Port of Entry seized a commercial truck carrying more than 17,000 pounds of illegal drugs. The discovery is one of the largest drug seizures…
Pharr CBP Officers, Agriculture Specialists Intercept Tomato Shipment in Alleged Attempt to Circumvent Withhold Release Order
PHARR, Texas – U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Office of Field Operations (OFO) Officers, Agriculture Specialists, at Pharr International Bridge detained a shipment of tomatoes from a company cited in a…
Coast Guard intercepts $51 million cocaine shipment in the Caribbean
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The Coast Guard Cutter Richard Etheridge crew offloaded approximately 1,700 kilograms of seized cocaine at Coast Guard Base San Juan Friday, following the disruption go-fast vessel smuggling…
Pineapple shipment destroyed after invasive Amazonian caterpillar found
GULFPORT, Mississippi – U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agriculture Specialists discovered a butterfly larvae pest, informally known as the Saunders 1850, while inspecting a container of pineapples from Costa Rica. The larvae…
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