Arizona deer hunters stumble upon 126 pounds of marijuana

Two hunters tracking a deer in the border community of Sasabe, Arizona, were stopped in their tracks when they noticed what one of them first thought was a body beneath some burlap wrapping.
 
It turned out to be 126 pounds of marijuana, stacked in seven bundles, wrapped in foil and plastic.

Pierre Mondotte and Anthony Piazza hiked back to their campsite and the next morning walked into a National Guard post to explain their find. "They didn't want to go at first. They didn't think it was anything," Piazza told the Arizona Republic.

But after following the pair to the pot, the Guards' attitudes changed. "All of a sudden they're loading their machine guns," Piazza added.

To be sure, with the brutal tactics employed by the Mexican cartels and their henchmen, the discovery was not to be taken lightly.

Andy Adame, a spokesman for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Joint Field Command placed the value of the marijuana at $101,480. He said drugs sometimes are abandoned by smugglers who think they're being followed.

It's not clear whether the hunters ended up bagging their deer.