US Customs and Border Patrol says in the San Diego sector, they're seeing more of a new smuggling trend.

Cartels are using hollowed-out batteries to smuggle drugs.

As the war on drugs amps up on the US-Mexican border, and even Northern, US Officials are seeing an increase in drugs stashed inside batteries.

In recent months, CBP and Customs Agents have seized dozens of vehicles with dangerous drugs hidden inside batteries, some of them even under the hood.

Officials didn't say how they were tipped off, but August 20th, one of the more recent stoppages, a Jeep Wrangler traveling north on I-5 near Carlsbad, CA was stopped, and nearly 12 pounds of drugs were found inside the vehicle's battery, consisting of cocaine and meth.

CBP also said in a statement on Monday, August 25th

"Previ

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