Woman Stopped At Border Smuggling Cheese
The agents with the United States Customs and Border Protection have their hands full catching drug smugglers and human traffickers. When you stop at a proper border crossing, you are asked to declare any goods you may have with you.
A woman driving from Mexico into Texas last week decided to try her luck at being dishonest and it cost her. When she approached the Paso Del Norte border crossing in El Paso, the United States citizen declared she had 10 wheels of cheese with her.
Wheels. Of. CHEESE. Hey, we love it as much as the next person, but we have never enjoyed it in wheel form. We digress.
The Customs and Border Protection officer went around the back and found the 10 wheels of cheese. But decided to do further investigation and found that there was another 50 wheels of cheese under blankets in the back.
You heard that right. Undeclared cheese.
You play with the law, you lose. The woman was hit with a $1000 fine and all of her “contraband cheese” (great name for a rock band) was destroyed. That is a cheesy way to get fined for sure. But you might be asking why she wouldn’t declare all 60 wheels?
The CBP and Department of Agriculture have a limit on how much dairy product you can bring across the border. If it’s enough for one person to eat, sure. But if you’re bringing it in bulk, that’s a big no no.
So the next time you think about smuggling cheese in wheel form, know that the long arm of the law isn’t far behind. They’re ready and waiting to cut your cheese and break your heart.
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