Border Patrol Arrests Teen Rideshare Passenger Smuggling Nearly $165,000 Worth of Fentanyl Across Border
El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents arrested a woman attempting to smuggle nearly $165,000 worth of fentanyl through a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint in a rideshare vehicle on Saturday morning.
At around 9:30 a.m., the woman and her driver approached the U.S. Border Patrol’s Highway 86 immigration checkpoint in a red sedan.
A K-9 unit alerted at the vehicle’s trunk, which led to the car being brought to another area for a closer inspection.
“In the secondary inspection area, the driver said he was employed as a rideshare driver and that he was providing a transportation service for the 18-year-old woman U.S. citizen passenger,” Border Patrol said in a press release about the arrest. “As the driver and passenger exited the vehicle,
