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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

U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officers Nab Juvenile with Almost 500 Pounds OF Marijuana Thursday Night

U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officers Nab Juvenile with Almost 500 Pounds OF Marijuana Thursday Night
Friday, March 23, 2007

El Paso, Texas -- U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers performing anti-terror inspections at the Bridge of the Americas port of entry in El Paso seized 478 pounds of marijuana Thursday night. The drugs were in the trunk of a vehicle being driven by a 17-year-old female U.S. citizen. The seized contraband has an estimated street value of $478,000.

The seizure was made just before 8 p.m. yesterday while CBP officers were conducting a “roving” operation in the lanes of cars waiting to reach the primary inspection booths. While CBP officers were interviewing the driver of a 1998 Chevrolet Malibu that was waiting in line, a CBP drug-sniffing dog alerted to the trunk of the vehicle. CBP officers opened the trunk of the car and discovered 444 marijuana-filled bundles inside. The total weight of the marijuana was 478 pounds. The juvenile driver from El Paso was taken into custody and turned over to the El Paso Police Department for prosecution.

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