A McAllen truck driver is behind bars after Border Patrol agents discovered more than three tons of marijuana hidden in a tanker filled with grapefruit juice.
U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have filed federal drug charged against 34-year-old Juan Cano IV.
The McAllen truck driver pulled up to the Falfurrias Border Patrol checkpoint in a tanker truck at 3 p.m. Friday.
A Border Patrol K-9 detected the presence of drugs prompting agents to X-Ray the tanker.
Authorities fished out 486 bundles with 6,723 pounds of marijuana from inside compartments in the tanker.
ICE officials believe the marijuana would have been worth $5.3 million dollars on the strets.
Court records showed that the tanker truck had logos from a Florida company but the company told Border Patrol agents that it was not their truck and Cano was not their employee.
Cano told investigators that he was supposed to deliver the shipment to Tennessee.
The McAllen man allegedly told investigators he did it because he needed the money to support his family.
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