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Heroin bust at Wellton border patrol checkpoint

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Story by Karen Castro - email

WELLTON, AZ - Border Patrol agents from the Yuma sector's Wellton station arrested a U.S. citizen over the weekend after finding drugs in the driver's car.

A K9 alerted border patrol agents to a Toyota sedan and after inspecting it they found 22 pounds of heroin with a street value of $300,000.

Agents assigned to the Interstate-8, near Wellton, turned the suspect and the car over the Drug Enforcement Administration.

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