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.

Sunday, February 25, 2007

ICE agents arrest four and seize more than $5 million of heroin

DEA agents, Customs and Border Protection Officers partner to uncover airport smuggling attempt

NEWARK, N.J. - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) special agents arrested four suspects for attempting to smuggle over 12 pounds of heroin, with an estimated street value over $5 million, into the United States.

ICE special agents working in conjunction with U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at Newark Liberty Airport discovered the drugs concealed in a passenger's luggage on a flight arriving from Guyaquil, Ecuador. During a routine inspection of passenger Eddie Palma-Jurado, a 23-year-old native of Ecuador, CBP inspectors found dozens of heroin pellets hidden within bars of candy. The candy bars were each individually wrapped, and then re-packaged into larger packs. The heroin was contained in over 100 separate candy bars.

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