A 33-year-old woman who lives in in Mexico and commutes to San Diego daily for work called the cops on herself when she unknowingly transported 30 pounds of marijuana across the border.
By Michael Komorn
As reported by NBC New York, the unnamed woman drove her car to work Friday morning, arrived early and was sitting in her car in a parking lot around 4 a.m. when two unidentified men approached her car and began removing packages from underneath it.
She surprised the men who then got in their car and drove away. She called the police, who then discovered 30 pounds of pot divided into six packages attached by heavy-duty magnets to undercarriage of the vehicle.
How the drugs got there– the woman claims it wasn’t her– remains a mystery. Police tell NBC New York that no arrests have been made.
Officials offered a reminder to those who regularly cross the border to check their car– as people are becoming targets by drug cartels as unknowing mules for drug trafficking.
Last year, CNN broke a similar story of a regular commuter from his home in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, to the University of Texas at El Paso.
In this instance, even though the man claims he was targeted and ferried drugs without his knowledge, he was sentenced to six months in prison.
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