Man arrested after about $162,000 in meth found in car on I-5 checkpoint

A 26-year-old man was arrested Tuesday at a Border Patrol checkpoint near San Clemente on suspicion of smuggling methamphetamine inside his car. (Photo courtesy of U.S Border Patrol)A 26-year-old man was arrested Tuesday, Sept. 12, at a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint south of San Clemente on suspicion of smuggling bundles of methamphetamine worth nearly $162,000 inside his car.
Around 5 p.m., at the checkpoint on Interstate 5, a Border Patrol K-9 team searched a 2003 Volkswagen Golf driven b