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 08, 2007

Horsemen smuggling pot escape, but patrol keeps drugs, 2 horses

By Brady McCombs

ARIZONA DAILY STAR

A trio of drug smugglers tried to sneak their loads past Border Patrol agents early Wednesday morning using old-fashioned horsepower.

Unlike many who transport drug loads in four-wheel-drive pickup trucks, these men loaded their bundles of marijuana on horses, said Gustavo Soto, Border Patrol Tucson Sector spokesman.

At about 5:45 a.m., agents went to the Kino Springs area about 10 miles east of Nogales after a night-camera operator spotted three horses carrying bundles north, he said. Agents encountered three men on horseback about one-quarter mile north of the border.

One man cut the loads from the horse and rode back into Mexico. The other ran off. Agents recovered 22 bundles of marijuana weighing 529 pounds and seized the two horses, Soto said. They didn't arrest any of the riders, he said.

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