EDINBURG, Texas (Border Report) -- A South Texas jury has found a Mexican truck driver guilty of attempting to smuggle 440 pounds of cocaine across the border through an international bridge.

Mario Pastor, 34, of Reynosa, Mexico, was convicted last week on a felony count of possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver more than 400 grams, Hidalgo County District Attorney Terry Palacios says.

Pastor was a commercial truck driver who often crossed the border into South Texas from Mexico, Palacios says.

According to court documents presented during the three-day trial in the 464th District Court, on March 5, Pastor drove a tractor-trailer through the Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge where Border Patrol officers discovered the cocaine concealed within the trailer.

The drug

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