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Customs officers haul in almost $300K in drugs at Arizona border

Jan 27, 2015, 1:28 PM | Updated: 1:30 pm

PHOENIX — Customs and Border Protection agents hauled in nearly 120 pounds of drugs in Nogales last week, the agency said.

Five busts totaled more then $563,000 in cocaine and methamphetamine. Sunday’s bust was the biggest, when officers pulled over a car and eventually found 10 packages of cocaine, worth almost $300,000.

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