DULLES, VA — A California traveler is facing multiple drug-trafficking charges, after U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at Washignton Dulles International Airport found 88 pounds of hashish in his checked baggage on Monday.
CBP has stepped up its inspection process in recent days, after it began seeing an increase in domestic marijuana growers shipping their product to Europe and Africa, where it would fetch many times its U.S. value.
It was during one of these inspections that CBP officers discovered large vacuum-sealed bags containing suspected hashish in baggage that was being loaded onto an outbound flight to Sao Paulo, Brazil.
A closer examination determined that the baggage contained 28 vacuum-sealed bags of brown bricks that field-tested positive for hashish. Weighing a combined 39.87 kilograms, or 87.89 pounds, 15 ounces, CBP estimated it had a potential street value of up to $10,500 in the U.S.
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