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An Arizona drug runner was caught using a popular adventure tourism activity to smuggle pot across the border.
The 18-year-old trafficker was arrested by Border Patrol agents after attempting to use a zip line to bring ten bundles of marijuana across the border, reports the AP.
Using surveillance technology, the agents found the trafficker within a few feet of the international border, as well as a zip line fastened to a tall building across the Mexico border in Agua Prieta, Sonora.
Over 240 pounds of marijuana was seized, with an estimated value of over $120,000.
Moving on from simply dropping drugs from the sky, ziplining is the latest of new methods used by smugglers that includes stuffing packages in newly manufactured Ford Fusions, as well as launching them across borders with makeshift cannons.
But as marijuana laws continue to reform on both sides of the border, smugglers are now bringing American-grown marijuana into Mexico rather than exporting it.
Border Patrol agents say the unidentified suspect is currently being held on federal smuggling charges.
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