U.S. Border Patrol agents found 78 pounds of cocaine with an estimated value of $1.1 million stuffed into two abandoned backpacks near the Canadian border last week. The agents in the Blaine Sector, which monitors the western part of Washington,

Border patrol agents found 78 pounds of cocaine – hidden in backpacks – while searching a wooded area in Lynden.

It looks like the block might be dry somewhere for some time—as $1.1 million worth of cocaine was found near the U.S.-Canadian border just a few days ago.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection discovered two abandoned backpacks containing approximately 78 pounds of the illegal substance in a wooded area

U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agents found 30 brick-like packages containing a white powdery substance in the backpacks.

Authorities assigned to a region near the Canadian border in Washington found two backpacks left out in the woods containing an estimated $1.1 million of cocaine.

CBS News reports how two backpacks filled with more than $1.1 million worth of cocaine was discovered in Washington state near the border of Canada last Thursday. The same CBS News report states how the drugs were discovered by agents out on patrol in the area of Lynden.

Whoever left two large backpacks near the US-Canada border in Washington state was clearly uninterested in communing with nature. Inside the black bags discovered last week were 30 bricks of what turned out to be cocaine,