HOUSTON — Customs officers discovered more than 115 pounds of marijuana hidden inside a shipment of musical drums at Bush Airport in north Houston.
The drums were being shipped to London until CBP officers and a narcotics detector canine team found 101 bundles of weed. It was labeled "blue Skittles," "moochie runtz" and "gelato," which are strains of hybrid marijuana.
“CBP’s diligence in rooting out illegal activity not only takes a huge amount of dangerous marijuana off the street but starves a drug trafficking organization of significant revenue that would have generated from its sale,” Acting Port Director for the Houston CBP Office of Field Operations Steven Scofield said. “We will continue to relentlessly pursue criminal networks who hide behind fake corporations and other illicit methods with our law enforcement partners so we make our neighborhoods and communities safer.”
The case was referred to Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) for further investigation.
