$2.75M pot load seized at Mariposa port

Port officers in Nogales seized $2.75 million worth of marijuana from a tractor-trailer this week, their third bust of more than a million dollars worth of pot so far this year.

According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, a 29-year-old male truck driver from Nogales, Sonora tried to the enter the United States though the Mariposa Port of Entry on Feb. 24 with a shipment identified as assorted electronic items.