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LeftInTX

(30,636 posts)
Sat Sep 28, 2024, 08:01 PM Sep 2024

Over 700 pounds of illegal bologna stuffed in suitcases seized at Texas border, feds say





A 43-year-old woman crossing the U.S.-Mexico border into Texas told officers that she had cooked meat in her vehicle.

As agriculture specialists at the Presidio port looked further, they found several heavy suitcases containing 40 rolls, weighing in at 748 pounds, of bologna in her SUV.

But the rolls were not the type of bologna that can be bought at a deli counter in the U.S., rather it was an illegal meat that posed a threat to the U.S. pork industry, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a Sept. 25 news release.

“Mexican bologna is a prohibited product because it is made from pork and has the potential for introducing foreign animal diseases,” CBP said.

https://www.dailyitem.com/wire/over-700-pounds-of-illegal-bologna-stuffed-in-suitcases-seized-at-texas-border-feds-say/article_15c40c06-6cbe-52c9-ba8e-180aac0327c1.html

The bologna was to hide the drugs and cash, but I guess she didn't know it was "illegal" bologna!

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Over 700 pounds of illegal bologna stuffed in suitcases seized at Texas border, feds say (Original Post) LeftInTX Sep 2024 OP
That's just nasty. 2naSalit Sep 2024 #1
You lose 700 lbs of product... Swede Sep 2024 #2
Ach! Thedemby Sep 2024 #3
LOL LeftInTX Sep 2024 #4
If you experience stuffed suitcase bologna lasting more than four hours Qutzupalotl Sep 2024 #5
700 pounds of illegal bologna? I didn't realize Cruz weighed that much. NoRethugFriends Sep 2024 #6
To conceal drugs? usonian Sep 2024 #7

usonian

(14,651 posts)
7. To conceal drugs?
Sat Sep 28, 2024, 11:20 PM
Sep 2024

I guess it’s a new take on the old saying;

If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull … oney?

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