A little more than candy was found in these recently discovered piñatas. A Tucson man has been arrested after his truck was caught smuggling a shipment of piñatas filled with marijuana and methamphetamines.
According to federal authorities, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at Nogales used narcotic detecting canine dogs to seize more than 425 pounds of marijuana along with another seven pounds in methamphetamines. The driver, Juan Marcelo Armstrong, 24, was coming back into the United States when CBP officers ordered him and his truck to an additional inspection.
This was just one of two drug cases at that checkpoint that Friday. Earlier, 28-year-old Pedro de Jesus Magana-Caballero was also caught with drugs after his vehicle was ordered to have additional inspection. Like Armstrong, Megana-Caballero was caught by the noses of trained narcotic detecting canines who found an oil pan filled with methamphetamines.
Both Armstrong and Magana-Caballero have been arrested and turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations while the drugs and vehicles have been processed and seized.
If you or someone you know has been charged with a drug crime, then you need to retain a criminal attorney who can make sure your rights are defended and your freedom is not unrightfully taken away. There are many avenues that a skillful criminal attorney can take to either get the charges dropped or lessened, but timing is everything in these cases.
The Phoenix drug crime defense lawyers of The Law Offices of Howard A. Snader, LLC encourage you to act now if you are facing such serious charges. Do not allow yourself to be charged with a crime that was unlawfully brought upon you and an infringement upon your rights.