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Posted: Friday, 05 February 2010 4:00PM

Sumas Bust Nets 65 Pounds Of Drug-making Powder



Tracy Ellis Reporting
KGMI News

kgmi@kgmi.com

SUMAS, Wash. -- U.S. Border Patrol agents say the arrested a Canadian citizen on Monday near Sumas, seizing 65 pounds of a substance used to make the street drug known as 'ecstasy.'

Agents found the man with 7 bundles of a white powder in a remote wooded area.

The powder is valued at $300,000, according to agents.

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