Nogales CBP Officers Uncover Almost $301K in Drugs

Release Date: 

August 9, 2016

TUCSON, Ariz. – Customs and Border Protection officers arrested three Mexican nationals involved in separate weekend attempts to smuggle more than $300,000 in methamphetamine and marijuana through the Port of Nogales.

Officers at the DeConcini crossing seized
58 pounds of meth that was discovered within
the rear bumper.

The first incident occurred early Aug. 6 when officers at the Dennis DeConcini crossing found nearly 58 pounds of meth, worth almost $173,000, concealed inside the back bumper of a Buick SUV driven by a 29-year-old resident of Nogales, Sonora, Mexico.

On Aug. 7, CBP officers working with a narcotics-detection canine at the DeConcini crossing located more than 32 pounds of meth, worth in excess of $96,000, within the cab and dashboard of a Chevy truck driven by a 34-year-old man from Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico.

More than 65 pounds of marijuana were recovered
from within the gas tank of a smuggling vehicle,
by officers at the Nogales West Mariposa crossing. 

Earlier in another Chevy truck, officers and a canine at the Nogales West Mariposa crossing discovered more than 65 pounds of marijuana, worth almost $33,000, in the vehicle’s gas tank. Officers identified the driver as a 30-year-old woman from Santa Ana, Sonora, Mexico.

Officers seized the narcotics and vehicles, and turned the subjects over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations.

Convicted Child Molester Arrested by U.S. Border Patrol

JACUMBA HOT SPRINGS, Calif.—U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested a man previously convicted of child molestation after he illegally crossed the border in East County on Monday afternoon.

At about 4 p.m., a Border Patrol agent witnessed three people climb over the border fence near Jacumba Hot Springs.  Agents responded and encountered the three Mexican nationals hiding in thick brush. 

Agents arrested the three men for illegally entering the country and transported them to a nearby Border Patrol station for processing.  A records check revealed that one man in the group had been previously deported after serving a six-year prison sentence for “Lewd and Lascivious Acts with a Child under 14.”

In response to this significant apprehension, Chief Patrol Agent Richard A. Barlow said, “I commend the agents involved in this arrest as their efforts reflect San Diego Sector’s commitment to strengthen border security and increase safety in our community.”

The 43-year-old convicted felon was transported to the Metropolitan Correctional Center in San Diego and faces federal charges for reentering the U.S. as a previously deported foreign national.

As of July 31, 2016, Border Patrol agents in San Diego Sector arrested 25,979 people for illegally entering the U.S. between ports of entry. 

To prevent the illicit smuggling of humans, drugs, and other contraband, the U.S. Border Patrol maintains a high level of vigilance on corridors of egress away from our Nation’s borders.  To report suspicious activity to the U.S. Border Patrol, contact San Diego Sector at (619) 498-9900.

Two U.S. Citizens Arrested in Attempt to Smuggle 40 Pounds of Methamphetamine

Release Date: 

August 10, 2016

YUMA, Ariz. – An adult male U.S. citizen and a 17-year-old male were taken into custody after the vehicle they occupied attempted to pass through a Border Patrol immigration checkpoint on I-8, east of Yuma, yesterday morning.

Wellton Station Border Patrol agents
seized 40 pounds of meth, that was
hidden inside of a smuggling vehicle

A canine detection team alerted to the vehicle at the checkpoint, prompting a secondary inspection. Agents then discovered 40 pounds of methamphetamine, worth more than $122,000, hidden in the vehicle.

The occupants, vehicle and drugs will be processed per Yuma Sector guidelines

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Iran's Khamenei Says no Room for Any Compromise or Negligence with U.S (Ok to take U.S money)?

TEHRAN - The Supreme Leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei, said there is no room for "any compromise or negligence" in keeping a distance from the United States.

"Keeping a distance from the head of the arrogant movement, i.e. the US, is one of the most important definitive principles of the great founder of the Islamic Republic (the late Imam Khomeini) and there is no room for any compromise or negligence in this regard," Khamenei said Tuesday night in a meeting with Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi and other senior military personnel, according to local media outlets.

The supreme leader, who praised his country's intelligence ministry, described it as a "very important and crucial bastion" and "the wakeful and observant eye of the Islamic establishment".

"The Intelligence Ministry is the hard shell of the Islamic establishment and should never become vulnerable," Khamenei added.

"The defensive force that has sustained the country throughout all these years has been the power of faith and if this strong and efficient weapon is undermined, it will lead to many plights," the Supreme Leader said.

U.S-Bound Cocaine Shipment Seized in Bolivia (7 tons )

LA PAZ – The more than seven tons of cocaine chlorhydrate found by Bolivia’s anti-drug force in a shipment of ulexite that was being exported to Honduras and then was to have been shipped to the United States is valued at $379 million, authorities said on Monday.

The drug was packaged in large sacks and displayed on Monday at the police academy by Interior Minister Carlos Romero, who said that the total weight of the shipment was 7.58 tons (about 16,700 pounds).

“This shipment is said to have obtained an export license through Tambo Quemado ... for Honduras, where the value of these drugs would be more than $160 million, and for later shipment to the United States,” Romero said.

Meanwhile, the commander of the FELCN anti-drug trafficking force, Santiago Delgadillo, said that in the United States, a kilogram of chlorhydrate costs $50,000, and thus the confiscated shipment would have a value of about $379 million.

Initially, the Attorney General’s Office said on Saturday that the cocaine was hidden within a shipment of 22 tons of the mineral ulexite.

The drug was found in the town of Patacamaya, 109 kilometers (67 miles) from La Paz in a truck being driven to the town of Tambo Quemado, on the border with Chile, from where it was to have been shipped overseas.

Three Bolivians were arrested and searches were mounted in the cities of Santa Cruz and Cochabamba based on documentation found in the truck.

With this shipment, so far this year Bolivia’s anti-drug force has seized more than 22.5 tons of cocaine, exceeding in just seven months the total of 20.5 tons seized during all of 2015.

Bolivia, Colombia and Peru are the main producers of coca leaf and its illegal derivative, cocaine.

In Bolivia, the plant has traditional, medicinal and industrial uses and is protected under the Constitution, but a certain percentage of the total cocaine crop is also diverted by drug traffickers to produce cocaine.

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