A 35-year-old Mexican woman was recently arrested after trying to cruise through a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint in Pine Valley with drugs in her vehicle.

When you think of minivans, what comes to mind? I am guessing anything but drugs.

A 35-year-old Mexican woman was recently arrested after trying to cruise through a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint in Pine Valley, San Diego with drugs in her vehicle.

She had been driving a 2005 Chrysler Town and Country minivan, and her 11-year-old son was in the auto with her. Despite the entirely under-the-radar appearance, a drug sniffing dog alerted authorities something wasn’t quite right inside the vehicle.

Agents investigated the auto inch by inch until they came across 27 cellophane-sealed bundles of meth stashed inside of the minivan’s gas tank. All together the packages weighed around 40 pounds.

The street value of the drugs was said to be about $500,000. The woman was swiftly arrested for ‘suspicion of possession of a controlled substance’. As for her son, he was returned to Mexico and placed into his father’s custody.