Customs & Border Patrol agents discover $3 million worth of marijuana

EL PASO, TX (CNN) -- Customs agents stopped a load of nearly two tons of marijuana from slipping into the U.S. at the port of El Paso, Texas.

The marijuana was hidden in a tractor trailer hauling a load of copy paper. 

The trailer had come from Mexico and the drugs were found when it agents X-rayed it.

A drug dog helped confirm the suspicions and agents found the marijuana bundles inside copy paper boxes.

U.S. Customs and Border Patrol estimates the street value of the drugs seized to be more than $3 million.