[NYPOST] One woman suffered a great loss this week after she was busted smuggling more than 700 pounds of illegal bologna across the US-Mexico border in Texas.
"Concealed on/in her body"
The 43-year-old woman, who is an American citizen, tried to enter the country at the Presidio port of entry from Mexico Monday afternoon when she only declared a cooked meal during the primary inspection, according to the Customs and Border Protection.
CBP agriculture specialists called her baloney and conducted a secondary inspection of the car, finding several suitcases stuffed with 40 rolls — 748 pounds — of Mexican bologna, a prohibited meat that poses a threat to America's pork industry, officials said.
''The concern with pork products is that they have the potential to introduce foreign animal diseases that can have devastating effects to the US economy and to our agriculture industry,'' CBP Presidio Port Director Benito Reyes, Jr. said in a news release.
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