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Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Wednesday, May 24, 2006

San Luis police find pot in abandoned Jeep

BY BLAKE SCHMIDT, SUN STAFF WRITER
May 23, 2006

When San Luis police stopped to check out an abandoned Jeep Cherokee stuck in the sand east of San Luis Monday night, they found 630 pounds of marijuana inside.

The discovery near Juan Sanchez Boulevard and Avenue C was the fifth pot seizure police have made or helped make this month. The estimated total street value of marijuana from all those seizures is more than $1 million, according to police spokesman Ernesto Lugo.

"We usually average about two to three busts a month," Lugo said Tuesday from the police station, where the odor of the confiscated marijuana was in the air.

Lugo said the sudden spike in busts is partly due to the department dedicating extra resources to drug enforcement in recent months.

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