U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agents found 30 brick-like packages containing a white powdery substance in the backpacks.

Border patrol agents found 78 pounds of cocaine – hidden in backpacks – while searching a wooded area in Lynden.

Border Patrol agents on a routine search of the woods north of Lynden on Thursday discovered a pair of backpacks containing more than $1 million in illegal drugs, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials in Blaine said Monday.

Agents found 30 brick-like packages of cocaine inside the backpacks, located in a wooded area in Washington near the U.S. border with Canada.

CBS News reports how two backpacks filled with more than $1.1 million worth of cocaine was discovered in Washington state near the border of Canada last Thursday. The same CBS News report states how the drugs were discovered by agents out on patrol in the area of Lynden.