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, March 01, 2007

Seven arrested here in nationwide drug-smuggling crackdown

BY JEFFREY GAUTREAUX, SUN STAFF WRITER

February 28, 2007 - 5:28PM

Seven people in the Yuma area were arrested Wednesday as part of what the federal government called the nationwide dismantling of an enormous Mexican narcotics operation.

Sixty-six people across the country were arrested Wednesday in the culmination of a 20-month investigation by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and other law enforcement, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.

Forty agents executed eight search warrants at residences in Yuma, Somerton and San Luis, Ariz., arresting five people on federal charges and two on state charges. The seven men operated in two separate distribution cells here for the Victor Emilio Cazares-Gastellum drug trafficking organization, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Liz Barrick.

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