More than $1.1 million dollars of cocaine are off the streets after two separate seizures in Brownsville.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers arrested Victor Hugo Hernandez and Matilde Vargas-Sotelo over the weekend.
The man drove up to the Gateway International Bridge in Peugeot.
A K-9 officer allegedly alerted customs officers to 10 packages with 26 pounds of cocaine worth $826,000 dollars hidden in the floor of his car.
The 37-year-old Puebla, Mexico appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Ronald Morgan on Monday where he was denied bond until a Wednesday morning hearing.
In the other case, customs officers at the B&M arrested Vargas-Sotelo after discovering 33 pounds of cocaine in the front walls of her 1999 Ford Windstar on Saturday.
The 46-year-old Matamoros woman also remains in custody after appearing before Judge Morgan on Monday.
