Mexican Onions Busted At Border

The contraband cops managed to dodge the Orange Walk customs enforcement team, but Orange Walk customs department continue to catch illegal movements of Mexican vegetables and beverages. This morning in an operation at 12:00 midnight, customs seized 40 sacks of white onions, in a Toyota pick up. Customs was conducting surveillance of a specific area where they saw the pickup offloading sacks of onions. Acting on the intelligence that it was to be several shipments the officers stood by and watched the first offloading, when the second shipment arrived the customs team pounced, but the vehicle’s occupants ran off and and escaped into the bushes near the Belize - Mexico border.