EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Border officers at the San Ysidro Port of Entry purposely allowed a Dodge Avenger loaded with drugs to proceed to San Diego on Tuesday.

The silver Avenger driver by a Mexican woman with a B1/B2 visitor’s visa pulled up to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection inspection booth at the crossing shortly before noon. She told an officer she was going shopping at the popular Las Americas Premium Outlets 20 minutes south of Downtown San Diego.

With tens of thousands of passenger vehicles crossing the border at San Ysidro every day, the CBP officer may have waved the sports car through. But court records show the officer had received an alert from a partner with a drug-sniffing dog roving through the lines of vehicles that the Avenger might be carrying drugs.

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