A Chula Vista resident was taken into custody at a rest stop alongside Interstate 5 on Camp Pendleton after he was discovered to be transporting 230 pounds of marijuana in his car. Border Patrol stopped the man and pressed smuggling charges. 

An officer at the rest stop saw the man performing behaviors out of the norm and searched his vehicle to find 46 packages of marijuana stashed in the trunk of the car, the Border Patrol reported. 

The agent took the man in handcuffs and confiscated the drugs. The amount of drugs is estimated to be worth $115,090, the Border Patrol informed. The man and the drugs were handed over to the Drug Enforcement Administration to be dealt with further.

Border Patrol agents confiscated over 20 pounds of metamphetamine with a value of $375,000 and took a man into custody in Boulevard, officials reported Wednesday.

The man was traveling in a 1999 Ford F-150 headed west on Interstate 8 around 4:30 a.m. Monday when officials came up behind the car and the driver suddenly stopped on the side of the road by Canebrake Road, officials with the Border Patrol stated.

He informed agents that he was having car issues.  

Agents became suspicious after they talked to the man because he kept giving the same answers so they requested  a K-9 to search the vehicle and the dog sensed there were drugs in the vehicle, the Border Patrol stated.

Agents looked through the car and discovered 19 bundles hidden in a compartment behind the passenger seat.

The driver, a 21-year-old U.S. citizen, was arrested and the drugs were handed over to the Drug Enforcement Administration.

An estimated 19 grams of methamphetamine was confiscated from dealers and people on the streets after police busted into an apartment on Tuesday. 

Officers searched the place to discover the drugs, drug paraphernalia and $4,851 cash. The officers had a search warrant for an apartment on North Hickory Street near East Washington Avenue, Escondido police reported. 

A 20-year-old man, an Escondido resident, was taken into custody and book into the Vista jail on suspicion of selling, transporting and possessing drugs, police stated. He was being detained there without bail on Tuesday night.

A U.S. citizen, living in Tijuana, was taken into custody Wednesday after officials at the Otay Mesa Port of Entry discovered 20 packages of marijuana stashed inside two garden-hose reels he was transporting in is truck along with his landscaping tools.

The man pulled up to the border checkpoint around 4 a.m., and a drug-sniffing dog became suspicious of the truck, signaling to officials to come check, reported Angelica De Cima, a spokeswoman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Officers searched the car to discover the 85 pounds of  marijuana, with a street value of $85,000, stored inside the reels in the bed of his truck.  

The man was taken into custody and sent to stay at the San Diego County jail.

Over $1.3 million worth of cocaine was seized and two people were taken into custody in two different drug smuggling cases that occurred at the Interstate 8 checkpoint in Pine Valley.

On Monday around 2:30 p.m., agents did not let a Kia Spectra pass through and looked through the car to discover the bottom of the car had been fixed in order to hold drugs, Border Patrol Agent Mark Endicott said.

Examining the car more closely led officials to find a compartment created purposefully for drugs and held 66 pounds of cocaine in 24 bundles.

A 25-year-old U.S. citizen and resident of El Centro was taken arrested. 

Another seizure took place on Tuesday at 1:30 a.m., Endicott reported.

In that incident, agents blocked a Dodge Durango from passing through and sent the vehicle and the driver to a second search after he seemed suspicious, Endicott stated. 

A drug sniffing dog was used and signaled to agents that there could possibly be drugs hidden in the SUV, agents then used an X-ray to find 25 bundles of cocaine weighing 66 pounds and stashed in the door panels of the car, Endicott reported. 

The 28-year-old man from Mexico driving the car was taken into custody.

A 53-year-old man was taken into custody after he tried to sneak cocaine and methamphetamine worth an estimated $66,000 on the streets through a Border Patrol checkpoint, officials reported Monday.

The man, who is a citizen of Mexico, pulled up to the checkpoint driving a Buick LeSabre around 2:45 p.m. on Friday. According to agents, the man looked uneasy and uncomfortable and continued to change his answers when he was questioned.  

Both the driver and the car were turned over to officials for further speculation and to undergo a second examination. While carrying out the check, agents saw that the carpet, floor molding and rocker panels of the car looked strange, officials reported. 

Authorities noticed an opening in the side panel and looked to find a package holding 1.45 pounds of cocaine.

Officials reported finding two other plastic containers holding 2.35 pounds of methamphetamine stashed in the side panel of the car. 

The man had the correct passport and paperwork to travel throughout the U.S. in accordance with the law but was taken into custody and handed over to agents in the anti-drug task force department.

Two men out on surfboards close to Imperial Beach late Thursday night were held and taken into jail when federal authorities discovered they had another surfboard attached to theirs and were pulling it packed with marijuana. 

Black duct tape was used to cover both the surfboard and hide the six packages of marijuana stashed underneath the board, reported Ralph DeSio, a Border Patrol spokesman.

Agents saw the men around 11 p.m. paddling about 200 yards away from shore, but they started to float out of sight. A U.S. Customs and Border Protection helicopter teamed up with agents to try and find the men and used a high-powered searchlight to point them in the right direction.

The men, ages 27 and 30, informed agents that they were Mexican nationals and were illegal immigrants. The agents then dragged the surfboards in to the shore and handed the suspects over to the county Sheriff’s Department.

The marijuana came to a total weight of 141 pounds and was worth $84,600, DeSio stated.

 A 37-year-old man from Escondido was charged on Wednesday for selling drugs after he attempted to sell large amounts of methamphetamine to an undercover government worker, the U.S. Attorney’s office reported Wednesday.

A federal grand jury approved the indictment, which found the man guilty of possession with the intention of giving out and selling methamphetamine pills, U.S. Attorney Karen Hewitt stated. 

Authorities claimed that the man attempted to sell a total of 14,000 methamphetamine pills for $100,000 and he had been giving out the drug from December till the time he was arrested on June 10, Hewitt stated.

Officials are also looking for the man to give up the properties he used in order to carry out the drug transactions, in which he used two cars and also the A$15,000 he acquired in his sellings, Hewitt stated. 

According to Hewitt, the man could be sentenced to serve 10 years at least in prison and pay a $4,000,000 fine.

Authorities took a driver, who is a part of the SENTRI trusted-traveler program, into custody under accusations of smuggling pot at the San Ysidro port of entry, making this the second arrest in four days, authorities report.

The 19 year-old female is a U.S. citizen and was caught in possession of marijuana around 1 a.m. Tuesday after she was searched by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents and they discovered 2 pounds of marijuana stored in a package in the front-passenger panel of her 1999 Chevrolet Malibu, Angelica De Cima stated, a CBP spokeswoman.

Agents transported her to the Los Colinas jail for women and will be held there under suspicion of drug-smuggling, De Cima reported. 

In another incident on Saturday, officials arrested a 21-year-old U.S. citizen after CBP officers searched his car and came across 183 pounds of marijuana. A dog specialized in searching for drugs, perked up and noticed the car while the man was sitting in the SENTRI lane, the spokeswoman stated. 

SENTRI is a lane that increases the rate at which prescreened participants from both sides of the border are able to cross instead of waiting in regular traffic lanes.