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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.

Thursday, January 17, 2008

500 lbs. of marijuana packed in 'Little Hugs' juice boxes seized

Toby Phillips

The Arizona Republic
Jan. 16, 2008 10:19 AM

Almost 500 pounds of marijuana packaged in "Little Hugs" juice boxes were seized from a truck Monday night in the northbound lanes of Interstate 17 at Union Hills,

At about 7:30 pm, a DPS officer stopped a semitractor-trailer rig for an equipment violation, according to the Arizona Department of Public Safety.

During a search of the truck, the police officer discovered four pallets of the marijuana-filled juice boxes. The 471 pounds of marijuana has an estimated street value of $250,000, according to a police statement.

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