News From the Border: Border Patrol in Texas Seizes $23 Million in Cocaine

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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.

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Border Patrol in Texas Seizes $23 Million in Cocaine

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Salineño, Texas — Border Patrol agents assigned to the Rio Grande Valley Sector seized over 700 pounds of cocaine yesterday. The value of the cocaine is over $23 million.

The seizure occurred when Border Patrol agents assigned to the Rio Grande City Border Patrol Station performing line watch duties, witnessed illegal activity in Salineño, Texas; a small community located about 12 miles west of Rio Grande City, Texas.

As agents monitored the area, they noticed a blue Ford F-150 truck approach the edge of the Rio Grande River. The agents observed several subjects load numerous bundles of possible narcotics onto the truck. As the agents identified themselves as Border Patrol Agents, all subjects fled back to Mexico by swimming across the river. The agents then secured the truck and discovered 30 bundles of cocaine with a combined weight of 746 pounds.

The value of the cocaine is $23,872,000. No subjects were arrested in connection with this incident.

The cocaine was turned over to the Drug Enforcement Administration. The blue Ford F-150 was seized by Border Patrol.

Labels: Border Patrol, drugs from Mexico