A Corpus Christi man is behind bars after he allegedly tried to smuggle more than $756,000 dollars worth of cocaine and meth into the United States.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers arrested 63-year-old Cornelio Lopez-Hernandez on federal drug charges on Wednesday.

The Corpus Christi man drove up from Mexico at Brownsville's Veterans International Bridge in a green Ford F-150 pickup truck.

Customs officers sent him to secondary inspection where a K-9 officer alerted authorities to drugs hidden in the the truck bed.

Officials found two packages with about 2.5 pounds of methamphetamines and nine packages with about 22.3 pounds of cocaine.

Lopez-Hernandez appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Felix Recio in Brownsville on Thursday morning.

Investigators told Action 4 News that Lopez-Hernandez is an American citizen who lives in Corpus Christi.

Judge Recio denied bond for Lopez-Hernandez until a Thursday afternoon bond.