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.

Monday, May 07, 2007

CBP Agriculture Specialists Uncover Heroin Smuggled In Sandals

Laredo, Texas – U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Laredo port of entry recently seized more than a quarter-million dollars in heroin found hidden in sandals belonging to a bus passenger.

The heroin seizure occurred on April 30 at Lincoln-Juarez Bridge in Laredo. CBP Agriculture Technicians and Agriculture Specialists were performing routine X-ray examinations of bus passenger luggage when they encountered an anomaly in a box of sandals belonging to Nicolasa Najera, 49, a resident alien from Sanford, N.C.

A CBP detector dog also alerted to the odor of narcotics emanating from the box. Upon further examination, CBP officers discovered a total of 2.87 pounds of heroin hidden in the soles of five pairs of sandals. The heroin has an estimated street value of $287,000. CBP Officers arrested Najera on federal drug charges and turned her over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Special Agents who investigated the seizure.

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