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

Yuma Border Patrol Nabs Pot in Cut-Off Vehicle

Friday, May 04, 2007

Yuma, Ariz. — U.S. Customs and Border Protection Border Patrol agents assigned to the Yuma Sector seized nearly 700 pounds of marijuana with an estimated value of $557,000 Wednesday during a narcotics smuggling attempt about a half mile from the international border.

Agents spotted two vehicles, a 1993 Jeep Grand Cherokee and an older Ford sedan, stuck in the dirt at County 15th Street, between the Colorado River and the Arizona Levee west of Yuma about 9 p.m.

When agents approached, five individuals abandoned the vehicles and fled into Mexico.

Upon closer inspection of the vehicles, agents noticed that the roof, windows and window panels were cut from the sedan, enabling the smugglers to circumvent anti-vehicle measures by driving the vehicle under security gates on the Salinity Canal. Seizing the vehicle marks a significant success for agents, who have been looking for the specially modified vehicle.

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