Del Rio, Texas – U.S. Customs and Protection Border Patrol agents assigned to the Del Rio, Texas station yesterday seized nearly 300 pounds of marijuana, valued at more than $230,000.

Around 2 p.m. Wednesday, at an immigration checkpoint north of Del Rio, a detector dog alerted to a 2001 Ford Truck. The driver was referred to a secondary inspection area where agents discovered a cut-out trap door leading to a hidden compartment containing 77 bundles of marijuana.

The driver, a 32-year-old U.S. citizen, was arrested.

The subject and contraband were turned over to the Drug Enforcement Administration.

	Border Patrol agents in Del Rio, Texas were able to spot this hidden hatch in the floor of a truck and discover 300 pounds of marijuana.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is the unified border agency within the Department of Homeland Security charged with the management, control and protection of our nation's borders at and between the official ports of entry. CBP is charged with keeping terrorists and terrorist weapons out of the country while enforcing hundreds of U.S. laws.