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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.

Friday, April 13, 2007

Matamoros officer arrested during marijuana raid

April 12, 2007, 1:10AM
Associated Press

BROWNSVILLE — An off-duty Matamoros, Mexico, police officer was one of four people arrested Wednesday during a drug raid where more than 600 pounds of marijuana were seized in a home in Brownsville, Cameron County authorities said.

Agents with the Cameron County District Attorney's Office found police credentials in the wallet of Officer Alvaro Camacho, 35, and notified Matamoros officials of his arrest, Commander Miguel Sanchez said.

Sanchez said agents acting on a tip asked tenants of the house if they could search the residence. He said they found 663 pounds of marijuana in two closets in the home, the Brownsville Herald reported in today's editions

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