U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers have detained a driver and a man they found hiding in a suitcase.

A CBP officer made the discovery at the Paso Del Norte port of entry in El Paso a little after midnight. The huge suitcase was in the back seat of a 1997 Ford Escort that entered the port from Mexico.

The driver of the car, Martin Enriquez Hernandez of Denver, Colorado, was charged with alien smuggling.

The man in the suitcase, 5 foot 7, 160 pound Jesus Ivan Payan Estrada of Anahuac, Chihuahua, Mexico was arrested on re-entry after deportation charges.

The two reportedly were planning to go to Denver.

Acting El Paso Port director for CBP Polly Figueroa said, "It is certainly unusual and something we rarely encounter at the El Paso port. The majority of illegal immigration attempts we see at the El Paso port involve impostors, the use of counterfeit documents, or people making false claims to U.S. citizenship."