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San Diego or Bust! Smuggler Uses Wheelchair to Hide Pot in Botched Border Crossing
Even if you sit on your pot and pretend to be disabled, those drug-sniffing dogs of the border patrol can still get wise to your plan.
A 19-year-old man learned this lesson this weekend as he attempted to make it over the border from Mexico into the U.S. at San Ysidro,"the world's busiest land border crossing" (thanks, Wiki!) with five pounds of marijuna stuffed inside the seat of a wheelchair, according to KTLA.
The young man seemed nervous, per the officers on duty, so they sent in the hounds, and, lo and behold, three packets of pot were sniffed out. The would-be smuggler was arrested, "turned over to local authorities and booked in the San Diego County Jail," reports San Diego's Fox5.
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