By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
Drug smugglers are crossing the border with an alarming amount of methamphetamine disguised in liquid form.
Federal authorities have found it in gas tanks, coolant containers, storage jugs, and bottles of water, pop and apple juice.
So far this fiscal year, feds have seized more than 141,000 pounds of meth, up from 68,585 the previous year.
After liquid meth crosses the border, drug dealers dehydrate it to return it to its crystal form.
“We have seen an increase in the methamphetamine seizures by various agencies to include DEA, DPS and Border Patrol, significant quantities of methamphetamine being smuggled,” Dante Sorianello, the assistant special agent in charge of the DEA in the San Antonio district, told News4SA.
