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.

Tuesday, May 01, 2007

CBP Officers Seize $8 Million Worth of Marijuana at Calexico Port

Saturday, April 28, 2007

Calexico, Calif. – U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers conducting border security operations at the east port of entry detained a 22-year-old U.S. citizen who allegedly tried to smuggle 2,768 pounds of marijuana into the U.S. on Thursday afternoon, officials announced today.

CBP officers conducting roving operations encountered the driver and Freightliner tractor-trailer as it entered the port from Mexico at about 3 p.m. A trained CBP narcotic detector dog alerted to the empty trailer and a subsequent X-ray confirmed anomalies in the front wall of the trailer.

During a thorough secondary inspection, officers discovered a non-factory wall compartment in the front area of the trailer. Officers subsequently extracted a total of 156 wrapped bundles of marijuana from the trailer valued at about $8.3 million.

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