Canadians stopped at Detroit border with 24 kgs of ecstasy

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U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION

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DETROIT - CBP officers working at the Detroit Ambassador Bridge seized approximately 24 kilograms of PCP laced ecstasy with a street value in excess of $100,000.

On May 10, 2011, two individuals in a Canadian plated vehicle arrived at the Ambassador bridge and declared that they were entering the United States to go to Atlanta for a week of shopping and vacation.

When asked who owned the vehicle they were in, the driver claimed ownership.

The CBP officer conducting the inspection observed indications that the car was actually a rental vehicle and selected it for further inspection.

In the CBP secondary inspection area officers found what appeared to be tampering with the rear quarter panel areas in the trunk of the vehicle.

Utilizing a fiber optic scope the officers were able to observe what appeared to be plastic bags secreted inside one of the quarter panels.

Continuing their inspection they discovered more plastic bags hidden in the opposite quarter panel as well.

Officers removed a portion of the quarter panel, which gave them access to the plastic bags.

They proceeded to remove several plastic bags containing colored pills from the vehicle.

Field-testing of the pills identified them as methylendioxymethamphetamine, MDMA. 

In all, approximately 24 kilograms or 53 pounds of the pills, approximately 75,812 individual pills, were discovered.

The two subjects, Shennelly Finn, and Lashawna Morgan, both 24-year-old females and Canadian citizens, were arrested and turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) for further investigation and prosecution.

“The CBP Officer conducting the primary inspection of this vehicle used his training and experience to observe and recognize that something was not right about this vehicle,” stated Director Field Operations Christopher Perry. “His decision to further the inspection resulted in these pills not making it onto our streets and into our neighborhoods.”

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is the unified border agency within the Department of Homeland Security charged with the management, control and protection of our nation’s border at and between the official ports of entry.

CBP is charged with keeping terrorists and terrorist weapons out of the country while enforcing hundreds of U.S. laws 

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