20,000 POUNDS OF POT SEIZED AT BORDER

U.S. Customs Service officers seized nearly 20,000 pounds of marijuana
from a tractor-trailer truck carrying computer circuits across the
U.S.-Mexican border, officials said Saturday.

Investigators said they believed the roughly $9 million shipment was
the largest amount of marijuana ever seized on the country's Southwest
border.

Investigators found 4,000 plastic-wrapped packages of marijuana inside
the truck with California license plates Friday. The truck's driver,
Carlos Ibarra, 39, of Tijuana, was arrested by Customs agents.

Before Friday's seizure, the largest amount of marijuana intercepted
at the border was about 15,000 pounds in April 2001.