{"id":707129,"date":"2010-04-01T19:28:58","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T23:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0133ec641097970b"},"modified":"2010-04-01T19:28:58","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T23:28:58","slug":"customs-officers-find-pot-hidden-in-lawnmowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/707129","title":{"rendered":"Customs officers find pot hidden in lawnmowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in San Diego with gardening tools in his truck was arrested after officers found nearly 100 pounds of marijuana hidden in two lawnmowers, authorities said Thursday.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>The man, a 21-year-old Mexican citizen, passed through the San Ysidro checkpoint in his 1995 Dodge Dakota truck about 3 a.m. Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security said. <br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>A customs officer became suspicious and sent the man to a secondary inspection area, where the truck was examined by an officer with a drug-sniffing dog. <br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>The blades of the lawnmowers had been removed to make space for 25 wrapped packages with 91 pounds of pot, the Department of Homeland Security said.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>The man was arrested and booked into San Diego County Jail.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>&#8211;Robert J. Lopez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in San Diego with gardening tools in his truck was arrested after officers found nearly 100 pounds of marijuana hidden in two lawnmowers, authorities said Thursday.The man, a 21-year-old Mexican citizen, passed through the San Ysidro checkpoint in his 1995 Dodge Dakota truck about 3 a.m. Tuesday, the Department [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-707129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2XXj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}