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, March 24, 2007

CBP Border Patrol Agents Arrest Drug Smuggler

Nearly 170 Pounds of Marijuana Discovered in Trunk
Thursday, March 22, 2007

Blythe, Calif. — Early Wednesday morning, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Border Patrol agents from Yuma Sector’s Blythe Station arrested an illegal alien and seized nearly 170 pounds of marijuana hidden in a vehicle.

While patrolling near Ehrenberg, Ariz. agents spotted a 2001 Chevrolet that was reported to be involved in suspicious activity. Agents stopped the vehicle and determined the driver to be an illegal alien. The driver was arrested and an inventory search of the vehicle turned up several bundles of marijuana weighing nearly 170 pounds. The drugs, hidden in the trunk, are valued at over $135,000.

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