U.S. Citizen arrested by Border Patrol for smuggling heroin

Wellton Station Border Patrol agents seized nearly $41,000 in heroin and arrested a shuttle van passenger at the Interstate 8 Immigration Checkpoint near Yuma Wednesday.
At approximately 8:30 a.m., agents assigned to the checkpoint referred a shuttle van to the secondary inspection area for immigration checks. A Border Patrol canine positively alerted to the backpack of a passenger traveling in the rear of the van. Two cellophane wrapped packages were discovered, weighing 2.35 pounds, which test