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.

Thursday, December 20, 2007

Border Patrol agents seize pot near Andrade

BY JAMES GILBERT, SUN STAFF WRITER

December 18, 2007 - 11:06AM

Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents came across a disabled smuggling vehicle loaded with 100 bundles of marijuana in the Imperial Sand Dunes Saturday afternoon.

The seizure came after agents, while out on routine patrol duties in the Imperial Sand Dunes west of Andrade, observed a group of quads to the south.

As agents made their way toward the group, they came across a white Ford F-250 pickup stuck in the sand. Upon closer inspection, agents noticed the truck contained 100 bundles of marijuana.

The total weight of the marijuana was 1,916 pounds, with an estimated street value of $1.5 million.

Tracks around the vehicle indicated that the group of quads the agents had observed earlier had actually been escorting the truck out of Mexico when it became disabled in the sand.

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