Marijuana. Progresso. Limes. Cucumbers. That could be the start to an episode of the Food Network's show Chopped. Or, it could be the snarky intro to a blog post about a "lime truck" filled with over a ton of cannabis getting busted in Progreso, Texas last Wednesday.Which, coincidentally, was also the same day a cucumber truck had over 1,900 pounds of bud lifted from it. In total, the "foodie" busts totalled almost $3.5 million and over 4,000 pounds of marijuana.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Wednesday announced the seizure of about $2.4 million worth of marijuana.
Investigators say an 18-wheeler hauling a commercial shipment of limes had a second inspection Tuesday at the Progreso International Bridge.
Officers discovered nearly 350 packages had been slipped into the shipment. Agents seized more than 2,400 pounds of marijuana.
Investigators say an unrelated bust a day earlier, in a commercial shipment of cucumbers, led to confiscation of more than 1,900 pounds of marijuana. The street value of the packaged marijuana has been estimated at $1.9 million.
Authorities did not state what they did with the limes or cucumbers. Odds are the fallen marijuana seeds and had a long date with funeral pyre and now rest in peace.