Accused Mexican smuggler caught with 1,000 pounds of liquid meth in truck tank faces life in prison

Source: New York Post

A Mexican citizen accused of trying to smuggle a half ton of liquid methamphetamine hidden in a truck’s fuel tank at the California border is facing life in prison. Alonzo Cesena Camacho, 26, of Tijuana, Mexico, had nearly 1,000 pounds of liquid meth concealed inside a commercial tractor-trailer’s fuel tank when he was caught last week during a routine inspection at the San Diego border, prosecutors said. Camacho was trying to smuggle the drugs into the US at the Otay Mesa Import Cargo Facility last Monday when Customs and Border Protection officers noticed a white, crystalline substance on top of his truck’s fuel tank, the U.