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.

Saturday, July 29, 2006

USBP seizes half-ton of pot

FROM STAFF REPORTS
Jul 28, 2006

Border Patrol agents on Thursday seized nearly a half-ton of marijuana, along with two suspected smugglers and a stolen vehicle southeast of Wellton, according to a Customs and Border Patrol news release.

It states that border agents discovered vehicle tire tracks around 1 a.m. that had crossed the border near Camp Desert Grip, a remote desert outpost in the Cabeza Prieta Wildlife Refuge 70 miles south of Wellton.

While following the tracks, agents found a late model Cadillac Escalade containing 990 pounds of marijuana — with a street value of $792,288.

A record check revealed that the vehicle had been stolen in Yuma.

A short time later, agents located two suspects believed to have fled the vehicle.

posted by missionaryman | 7:41 AM

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