Travelers Smuggle Marijuana Packaged as Paper

Dallas – U.S. Customs and Border Protection intercepted two Japanese citizens smuggling more than 50 pounds of marijuana through Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, March 29.

The pair of 22-year-old men was traveling from Jamaica enroute to California when they were directed to baggage control for an inspection of their luggage. The inspection of their luggage revealed 11 vacuum-packed boxes containing 22 bricks of marijuana. The boxes containing the illegal narcotic were packaged to appear like reams of paper.

“This interception is indicative of the attention to detail our officers’ pay when processing travelers entering the U.S.,” said Jeffrey O. Baldwin Sr., director of Houston CBP Field Operations. “We will take every opportunity to disrupt criminal activity whenever we encounter it.”

CBP turned the two men over to the Dallas Fort Worth Airport Department of Public Safety for criminal prosecution.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is the unified border agency within the Department of Homeland Security charged with the management, control and protection of our nation's borders at and between the official ports of entry. CBP is charged with keeping terrorists and terrorist weapons out of the country while enforcing hundreds of U.S. laws.