News From the Border: Border Patrol in Brownsville Seizes More Than 1,200 Pounds of Marijuana

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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.

Saturday, December 08, 2007

Border Patrol in Brownsville Seizes More Than 1,200 Pounds of Marijuana

Friday, December 07, 2007

Brownsville, Texas — Agents from U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Border Patrol seized nearly $1 million in marijuana in Brownsville, Texas yesterday.

The seizure occurred when agents assigned to the Brownsville Border Patrol station responded to suspicious activity near the Rio Grande River. Agents observed several individuals loading bundles of possible narcotics into a dark colored mini van.

Nearby agents tried to perform a vehicle stop, but the driver did not cooperate and turned the vehicle around and went back toward the river. The driver absconded into Mexico by wading across the Rio Grande River after he abandoned

the vehicle. Inside the vehicle, agents found 16 bundles of marijuana weighing 1,245.5 pounds with a total value of $996,400.

Border Patrol seized the vehicle and the marijuana was turned over to the Drug Enforcement Administration.

Labels: Border Patrol, drugs from Mexico