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Border bunglers: 10 odd smuggling attempts foiled by US agents

Drugs are just a few of the illegal products – from the exotic to the mundane – that people attempt to sneak across the US-Mexico border everyday. Here are 10 examples of creative ways people tried to sneak something past Customs.

9. Sapotes-scented baby wipes

Business Wire/File
Warning: Baby wipes (such as these) do not come with illegal Mexican fruit included.

  • By Lourdes Medrano Staff writer

Sapotes, a tropical fruit, is so vulnerable to the fruit fly that it is not allowed into the US, even commercially. That didn’t stop someone from attempting to get some fragile sapotes across by placing them deep inside a container of baby wipes.

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