CBP officers at two ports of entry within the agency's Laredo Field Office seized methamphetamine worth more than $72.3 million.

Over the long holiday weekend, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at two ports of entry within the agency's Laredo Field Office seized methamphetamine worth more than $72.3 million. The drugs were found in two separate seizures on the same day. The larger seizure happened on Friday, June 19, at the World Trade Bridge in Laredo. A CBP officer sent a 2011 Dodge Ram stake bed truck for a closer look after the shipment was manifested as "polypropylene (a type of plastic). Using a drug-sniffing dog and X-ray-like scanning equipment, officers uncovered 7,047.73 pounds of suspected methamphetamine hidden inside the cargo. The street value of that load is estimated at $63 million.

That same day, at the Pharr International Bridge cargo facility, officers referred a tractor-trailer arriving from Reynosa, Mexico, for a secondary inspection. Scans showed something unusual inside the trailer. A physical inspection turned up 193 packages of suspected methamphetamine weighing 1,042.78 pounds (473 kilograms), concealed in the trailer. This haul has an estimated street value of $9.3 million. "These large-scale cargo methamphetamine seizures, both taken the same day at different ports of entry within the Laredo Field Office, underscore the serious drug threat our officers are facing as well as their resolve to stem the flow of this poison into the U.S.," said Donald R. Kusser, Director of Field Operations for the Laredo Field Office. "Our frontline officers remain committed to carrying out our border security mission, as exemplified by these significant enforcement actions." These two big seizures fit a pattern that shows up clearly in CBP data. According to first-quarter 2026 figures shared in our previous data set, nearly three-quarters of all drugs seized along the Texas border were caught at legal ports of entry, not by patrols between them. Methamphetamine made up the largest share, and the Laredo Field Office alone accounted for more than a third of the state's total. The same report noted that 99.98 percent of the fentanyl intercepted in Texas that quarter was stopped at the ports. So the pressure falls squarely on officers inspecting cargo and vehicles at the official crossings. In both cases, CBP took possession of the drugs and the vehicles. Special agents with Homeland Security Investigations have opened criminal investigations into each seizure. The CBP statement did not mention any arrests.