News From the Border

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.

Friday, June 30, 2006

Agents find drugs hidden in motorboat

BY MARK RANDALL, SUN STAFF WRITER


A U.S. Border Patrol agent who thought he was pulling over to assist a motorist experiencing motor trouble instead found more than $700,000 worth of drugs hidden in a motorboat.

Border Patrol Spokesman Rick Hays said the agent was traveling on a Dome Valley road Monday around 6 p.m. when he spotted a 1998 Ford Expedition pulling a motorboat.

Upon spotting the agent, the driver of the vehicle immediately pulled off to the side of the road.

Upon closer inspection the agent found a hidden compartment near the bow of the boat containing about 874 pounds of marijuana and 64 vials of ketamine, a tranquilizer known as "special k," which is used as a date-rape drug.

"That's something we don't see on a regular basis," Hays said.

The estimated street value of the marijuana is $699,000 and of ketamine $18,000.

Hays said this year Border Patrol has seized more than 39,000 pounds of marijuana valued at $31 million.

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