10,000 Pounds of Marijuana Worth $24 Million Destined For England Seized At Baltimore Port

U.S Customs and Border Protection Officers seized over 10,000 pounds of marijuana bound for England at the Port of Baltimore.

The drug was reportedly hidden inside a shipping container, which was labelled as containing men’s cotton and nylon shirts.

However, instead, there were 238 boxes containing vacuum-sealed bags of the drug, which the officers found after being alerted by a two-year-old German shepherd named Letti.

The marijuana was worth $24 million in the U.S and according to officials, it would sell for twice the amount in Europe.

Probe is ongoing, led by special agents with Homeland Security Investigations, and no arrests have been made till now.

“This is a recklessly brazen attempt to smuggle over five tons of marijuana through Baltimore to Europe, and an incredible effort by exceptionally professional Customs and Border Protection officers to intercept it,” said Adam Rottman, CBP’s area port director in Baltimore.

Rottman said that transnational criminal organisations eye European markets because of the high profits they earn from selling the drug overseas.

Akil Baldwin, special agent in charge of HSI Maryland, said that moving drugs through commercial cargo channels abuses the same infrastructure which supports legal trade, which ultimately drives up security and inspection costs and burdens the communities which depend on these ports.

Throughout the country, officers and agents have confiscated around 185,000 pounds of marijuana in 2025 and 190,000 pounds during the first 7 months of 2026.