U.S. Customs and Border Protection

MIAMI, FLA -- Customs agents at Miami International Airport made a disturbing discovery in a piece of luggage -- human remains apparently for use in a Santeria ritual. According to Miami-Dade police spokesman Roy Rutland, agents found two human fetuses...

LONG BEACH -- U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers intercepted a total of 20 stolen vehicles bound for Hong Kong and Vietnam. The vehicles, falsely manifested as “used fitness equipment,” have a combined estimated value of $1.5 million. CBP...

LOS ANGELES (KTLA) -- Over 100 Santa, snowman and polar bear Christmas figurines were seized after investigators found they did not meet safety standards, officials said. The 151 figurines were seized on Nov. 23 and 25 at the Los Angeles/Long Beach...

WASHINGTON -- Mexican drug cartels have used cash and sexual favors as tools to corrupt U.S. border and customs agents, an inspector general investigation has found. In exchange, agents allow contraband or unauthorized immigrants through inspection...

New York -- Authorities in New York seized more than $9 million worth of opium hidden inside a shipment of porcelain figurines last month at John F. Kennedy International Airport, U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced Thursday. The seizure...

LOS ANGELES ( KTLA) -- A man is accused of trying to smuggle cocaine into the United States by concealing the drugs inside fake candy and dozens of Easter eggs. Esteban Galtes, 23, of Miami, was arrested at LAX Thursday night by agents with U.S....

LOS ANGELES -- U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents have seized fake designer sunglasses worth an estimated retail value of more than $12 million. The sunglasses, which were knock-offs of famous designers including Coach, Gucci and Emporio Armani,...

SAN DIEGO, Calif. -- U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers intercepted 9,434 pounds of marijuana in three separate shipments in the past 2 days. On Wednesday, April 6, at about 4 p.m. at the Tecate port of entry commercial cargo processing, a 34-...

SAN DIEGO ( KTLA) -- A 31-year-old Los Angeles man has been arrested for trying to smuggle an illegal immigrant into the country by hiding him under a bunch of buckets filled with tools in the back of a pickup truck. A U.S. Customs and Border...

CALEXICO ( KTLA) - U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers working at the Calexico cargo port of entry discovered 783 pounds of marijuana in a false front wall compartment of a refrigerated trailer pulled by a 2000 Freightliner tractor. The driver, a...

FONTANA -- Los Angeles Border Enforcement Agents seized $1.5 million worth marijuana and busted a smuggling operation that gives new meaning to the term "drug mule." The operation used donkey statues to conceal the illegal pot, according to law...

LOS ANGELES- Two suspected stowaways are under arrest after they were discovered aboard a Los Angeles-bound containership. A joint federal team was called early Sunday to investigate a report of two stowaways on board a container ship en route to the...