Eagle-eyed air patrol officers with the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) might have been surprised earlier this week when they spotted what turned out to be illegal cannabis sitting in the desert.
As part of Operation Lone Star — a multi-agency effort to secure the U.S./Mexico border and stop drugs, weapons and people from entering Texas — members of DPS’s Air Operations Division (AOD) somehow saw a weed bundle weighing 91 kilograms while flying by the desert area near Van Horn, notes the DPS.
Picking up the grey-coloured bundle from the air was impressive.
The Chihuahuan Desert, which is the largest in North America and is located between the eastern and western Sierra Madre mountain ranges, “stretches across six Mexican states and parts of Texas and New Mexico,” per Nature.
DPS’s AOD has 50 police pilots, all of whom “hold a
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