A uniformed U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer leans toward a car window to check a driver’s identification at the Juarez-Lincoln Bridge port of entry in Laredo, Texas. Archive photo by Donna Burton, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Federal brief

CBP: officers at Laredo’s Juarez-Lincoln Bridge seize about $628,000 in cocaine

U.S. Customs and Border Protection says officers found 18 packages holding 47.06 pounds of alleged cocaine in a vehicle at the Laredo Port of Entry on Sept. 30, 2026. Two people were arrested, and Homeland Security Investigations is investigating. Notice Nearby brief — not Legal Publication.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said on Oct. 5, 2026, that officers at the Laredo Port of Entry in Laredo, Texas, seized 47.06 pounds of alleged cocaine with a listed street value of $628,458.

What happened: CBP says the stop was on Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2026, at the Juarez-Lincoln Bridge. An officer sent a 2017 Nissan Rogue to secondary inspection. After a check by a CBP canine and a scan with a nonintrusive inspection system, officers found 18 packages hidden in the vehicle.

Who was arrested: CBP describes the driver as a 35-year-old Mexican citizen and the passenger as a 30-year-old U.S. citizen, and does not name them. Both were arrested. CBP seized the drugs and the vehicle, and Homeland Security Investigations special agents are investigating. The release lists no charges or court dates. An arrest is not a conviction, and anyone arrested is presumed innocent unless proven guilty in court.

Official source: CBP national media release “CBP officers seize over $628K in cocaine at Laredo Port of Entry” (Oct. 5, 2026): https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/cbp-officers-seize-over-628k-cocaine-laredo-port-entry . Webb County readers: see the Notice Nearby Webb County paper at https://noticenearby.com/papers/tx-webb-laredo-cbp-628k-cocaine-nissan-rogue-oct-2026 and the Webb County hub at https://noticenearby.com/tx/webb .

This is a Notice Nearby publisher-desk brief based on a CBP media-release email sent to publisher@noticenearby.com on Oct. 5, 2026. It is not a legal notice and not Legal Publication. Photo: a CBP officer checks identification at the Juarez-Lincoln Bridge port of entry in Laredo (an archive photo, not this seizure), by Donna Burton, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (resized).

Source: the official public federal record cbp-laredo-628k-cocaine-2026-10-05 · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · National media release · Laredo Port of Entry cocaine seizure · Oct. 5, 2026 · NN-PUBDESK-BF-20261005-01.

This is a Notice Nearby publisher-desk Federal brief — a short in-house summary of a public federal filing. It is not official agency minutes, not a newspaper story, and not Legal Publication. It does not satisfy a statutory notice requirement.