{"id":48363,"date":"2019-10-31T12:04:25","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T12:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/border-police-uncover-500-pounds-of-weed-disguised-as-jalapenos\/"},"modified":"2019-10-31T12:04:25","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T12:04:25","slug":"border-police-uncover-500-pounds-of-weed-disguised-as-jalapenos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/news\/border-police-uncover-500-pounds-of-weed-disguised-as-jalapenos\/","title":{"rendered":"Border Police Uncover 500 Pounds of Weed Disguised as Jalape\u00f1os"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things got spicy at the US-Mexico border outside of San Diego, California last week, when border cops discovered more than 500 pounds of weed disguised as a shipment of jalape\u00f1o peppers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to San Diego\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/fox5sandiego.com\/2019\/10\/30\/hundreds-of-pounds-of-pot-found-hidden-in-jalapeno-shipment\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u><em>Fox5 News<\/em><\/u><\/a>, the green produce arrived at the Otay Mesa border crossing in a tractor trailer on October 25th and quickly aroused the suspicion of drug-sniffing dogs. During a search of the vehicle, border cops looked through box after box of jalape\u00f1o peppers, eventually uncovering more than 100 bales of cannabis weighing out to 527 pounds.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To disguise the contraband as best as possible, the pepper popping bud smugglers packaged their stash in paper wrappers printed with pictures of jalape\u00f1os on them. Still, even with the misdirection, cops were easily able to distinguish the produce from the pot.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/news\/colombian-cops-unearth-over-600-pounds-of-weed-hidden-in-coffins\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>coffins<\/u><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/culture\/the-ten-most-half-baked-weed-smuggling-schemes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>carrots to mini statues of Jesus<\/u><\/a>, weed smugglers have always been creative when it comes to sneaking skunk past border agents. In fact, earlier this summer, another group of pot pushers were caught trying the <a href=\"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/news\/border-patrol-finds-4-tons-of-weed-hidden-in-jalapeno-shipment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>exact same jalape\u00f1o hideaway trick<\/u><\/a> at the exact same border checkpoint just two months ago.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But when the cops get wise to the game of narcotics hide and seek, the consequences are anything but funny. After this week\u2019s jalape\u00f1o bud bust, the tractor trailer and the weed was seized by border patrol, and the 28-year-old driver was turned over to Homeland Security officers for prosecution.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Zach Harris on <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PotCzach\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u><em>Twitter<\/em><\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The massive bundles of bud were packaged in paper with pictures of peppers printed on them and hidden inside boxes of real jalape\u00f1os.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3036],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Border Police Uncover 500 Pounds of Weed Disguised as Jalape\u00f1os - 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