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A California trucker faced a federal judge in Brownsville after state troopers found more than two tons of marijuana inside his 18-wheeler.
A Texas Department of Public Safety state trooper pulled over trucker Pedro Rene Monteagudo off U.S. Expressway 77 and Conley Road in Willacy County last week.
The state trooper allegedly found 95 bundles with 4,403 pounds of marijuana mixed in a shipment of watermelons.
Monteagudo told investigators he was supposed to take the produce Miami and the marijuana to Houston.
The Hawthorne, California man allegedly told investigators he was supposed get paid between $8,000 and $10,000 dollars to haul 500 pounds of marijuana to Houston.
Monteagudo appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Felix Recio in Brownsville on Monday morning.
Judge Recio ordered that the California trucker remain in custody until a Thursday morning detention hearing.
