Border agents find wrong kind of grass in mowers

[April 20, 2010]  SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Border authorities arrested a man trying to cross the border with two mowers stuffed with the type of grass not usually found in machinery.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection arrested an unidentified Mexican man who tried to smuggle 53 pounds' worth of marijuana across the border on Friday. The man drove into the inspection station from Tijuana, Mexico, at about 5:30 a.m. hauling the lawnmowers in his pickup.

A dog alerted agents and a search turned up 21 packages of pot crammed inside the chassis of the mowers.

The driver was arrested and booked into San Diego county jail on suspicion of drug trafficking.

[Associated Press]

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