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.

Thursday, February 15, 2007

269 Pounds of Marijuana Seized

$860,851 Estimated Street Value
Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Douglas, Ariz. - U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officers at the Douglas port of entry stopped two attempts at smuggling large quantities of marijuana into the country on Monday, seizing 269 pounds of the drug and arresting two people from Mexico in connection with the failed smuggling attempts.

At a little before 2:00 p.m., CBP officers screening visitors entering the United States became suspicious of a 55-year-old woman driving a 1993 Ford Explorer after detecting anomalies in the spare tire of the vehicle during a cursory exam. The driver and vehicle were sent for a thorough inspection where, after a drug dog alerted the officers to narcotic odor, officers found 108 packages of marijuana hidden inside all of the vehicle tires. The woman, a Mexican citizen from Agua Prieta, was arrested and the marijuana (144 pounds) was seized along with the vehicle.

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