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 Bundles holding 2,100 pounds of marijuana with an estimated street value of $1.2 million were found in a fake UPS truck seized by a DPS officer working in the Tucson area on Nov. 14.
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Tucson, Arizona | Published: 12.10.2008
A fake UPS service truck stuffed with 2,100 pounds of marijuana with an estimated street value of $1.2 million was seized last month, the Department of Public Safety has reported.
On Nov. 14, a DPS officer working in the Tucson-area tried to stop the cloned UPS truck.
The truck eventually stopped and a person fled.
A search revealed bundles of marijuana still attached to makeshift burlap back straps that human drug carriers use to move pot loads through the desert.
The traffickers painted the truck a shade of brown and affixed reflective yellow decals in the same general areas as an authorized UPS vehicle.
Atlanta-based UPS is cooperating with the DPS .
A search of UPS's vehicle inventory revealed the vehicle number on the cloned truck was an actual number assigned to an authentic UPS truck servicing the Tucson area.
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