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Illegal Immigrant Drug Gangs Taking Over U.S. Public Lands
Monday, March 01 @ 09:32:12 EST by williamg (521 reads) |  Law enforcement officials say Mexican drug gangs are quietly
commandeering U.S. public land to grow huge marijuana crops and using
smuggled immigrants to cultivate them.
Some of traffickers have planted pot fields near Yosemite's waterfalls and in the middle of California's redwood forests.
Subjects: illegal immigration, drugs, human trafficking, smugglers, Mexico, cartels, illegal aliens, foreign nationals, illegal immigrants, reform
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TX Sheriff believes marijuana field workers were worked by illegal aliens
Tuesday, September 29 @ 10:41:29 EDT by alipac (880 reads) | Evidence collected at a huge marijuana growing
operation between Melrose and Etoile on Sunday has led authorities to
believe that the majority of the operation was conducted by illegal
aliens who answered to someone higher up.
Nacogdoches County Sheriff Thomas Kerss said items recovered from
the operation's camp sites contained names, and his office is in the
midst of obtaining leads on those individuals. He said from the
appearance of working and living environments of the operation, he
"strongly suspects" the majority of them will be illegal aliens and
could be "linked to an individual higher up in the organization."
Topics: illegal immigration, illegal immigrants, aliens, crime, drugs, marijuana, cartel, growers, camps, $1 million, workers
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Mexican marijuana growers boldly operate in California
Monday, September 21 @ 11:25:38 EDT by Dixie (977 reads) | Amid dense scrub oak and manzanita high above
the Coloma Valley in El Dorado County, the marijuana growers were
stocked to subsist in the steep, unforgiving terrain.
They had seedlings, fertilizer and drip irrigation for thousands of
high-grade plants. They had solar power, cookware and months of food.
And they had a tiny, protective figurine: Jesús Malverde, the patron
saint of Mexican drug traffickers.
Topics: illegal immigration, violence, crime, drugs, growers, marijuana, Mexico, Mexican, drug traffickers, cartels
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ATF worries about cartel grenades coming into US
Tuesday, August 04 @ 00:17:06 EDT by alipac (937 reads) | PHOENIX — It was a scenario U.S. law enforcement had long feared: A fragmentation grenade from Mexico's bloody drug war tossed into a public place.
Only the grenade thrower's bumbling prevented bloodshed in a south Texas bar — he neglected to pull a second safety clasp. But the act was proof that one of the deadliest weapons in Mexico's drug battle is a real threat to the U.S., and investigators are stepping up efforts to make sure it doesn't happen again.
While Mexican drug violence has been spilling across the border in the form of kidnappings and killings, grenades are a particular worry because they can kill large numbers of people indiscriminately, and they are a weapon of choice among Mexican cartel members.
Subjects: drugs, drug cartel, border, spillover, violence, grenade, law enforcement, DHS, security, Mexico
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Border Security Mexico drug charges against 7 mayors, 20 officials
Friday, June 19 @ 12:49:49 EDT by alipac (1126 reads) | MEXICO CITY — Mexico levied organized crime and drug charges Thursday against seven mayors, the former state attorney general and 19 other officials in the western state of Michoacan for allegedly aiding a drug cartel.
Three other mayors detained in raids across the state May 26 have not been charged, but will continue to be held pending investigations, officials said.
The seven mayors are the largest group of Mexican elected officials arrested on drug charges in recent memory. They and the other suspects charged will be taken to a federal prison in the Pacific coast state of Nayarit to await trial.
Topic: Mexico, drugs, drug, cartels, Mexican, officials, mayors, arrests, border, security, DHS,
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Cocaine seized from illegal immigrants in Gresham, Oregon traffic stop
Saturday, March 14 @ 12:27:57 EDT by alipac (1451 reads) | Cocaine seized from illegal immigrants in Gresham, Oregon traffic stop
by Lynne Terry, The Oregonian
Friday March 13, 2009, 11:26 AM
A traffic stop in Gresham turned into a drug bust Thursday evening, according to Multnomah County Sheriff's Office.
Special investigators pulled over two men in a Ford Taurus near Northeast 191st Avenue and Glisan Street. When the passenger, 37-year-old Javier Luciano-Ramirez, got out of the car and raised his hands, a half pound of cocaine with a street value of $100,000 tumbled out of his shirt, said sheriff's spokesman Deputy Paul H. McRedmond.
Luciano-Ramirez and the driver, 32-year-old Alfredo Lugo-Velez, were arrested on drug allegations and jailed in Multnomah County Detention Center. Both men are Mexican nationals and in the country illegally, McRedmond said. They have been placed on immigration holds.
TOPICS: Ilelgal Immigration, ilegal immigrants, illegal aliens, Mexico, Mexican Nationals, drug allegations, immigration, holds, cocain, drugs, gun powder, Multnomah County Sheriff's Office
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U.S. sees serious threat in Mexico drug violence
Saturday, February 28 @ 09:01:10 EST by alipac (1471 reads) | U.S. sees serious threat in Mexico drug violence
By MATTHEW LEE, The Associated Press
12:22 p.m. February 27, 2009
WASHINGTON — Spiraling drug violence in Mexico, narcotics trafficking elsewhere in Latin America and a thriving opium trade in Afghanistan pose significant national security threats to the United States, the Obama administration said Friday.
In its annual survey of global counter-narcotics efforts, the State Department painted a grim picture of the situation in Mexico, where government attempts to fight traffickers are hindered by rampant corruption. The battle between authorities and drug cartels killed more than 6,000 people last year and more than 1,000 so far in 2009.
Mexico is the main transit point for cocaine entering the U.S. and a source for much of the heroin, marijuana and methamphetine consumed in America. The report praised Mexican President Felipe Calderon for "courageous" and "unprecedented" steps to combat drug trade, but noted corruption still plagues the effort.
SUBJECTS - Illegal Immigration, illegal immigrants, drug violence , Mexico, narcotics trafficking, opium trade , OBama, State Department, rampant corruption, cocaine,Mexican President Felipe Calderon
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Drug Gangs On Rampage, Kill 20 Across From U.S. Border
Friday, February 27 @ 12:57:48 EST by alipac (1477 reads) | Drug Gangs On Rampage, Kill 20 Across From U.S. Border
Friday, February 27, 2009 12:19 PM
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico – Rampaging organized crime syndicates thumbed their noses at reinforced security measures in northern Mexico, killing 20 people overnight, authorities said Thursday.
Six of the killings in Chihuahua state were committed in Ciudad Juarez, the city across the border from El Paso, Texas that has become Mexico's murder capital, with more than 1,650 drug-related killings here in 2008, police said.
Members of Mexico's national security council held a summit Wednesday in Ciudad Juarez where they announced a "visible" reinforcement of security operations in the city which already includes 2,500 soldiers and police.
Interior Minister Fernando Gomez Mont vowed a major crackdown on the out-of-control violence Wednesday, even as an unexploded home-made bomb forced the evacuation of the airport and a bomb threat cleared the city courthouse.
"We are not going to surrender to them a single centimeter" of the city "and we're going to kick them out of Juarez," Gomez Mont said.
TOPICS: CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico, organized crime syndicates, killing,El Paso, Texas, violence , drugs, United States
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El Paso is major hub for drugs sent to U.S.
Sunday, December 21 @ 13:59:41 EST by alipac (1888 reads) | El Paso is major hub for drugs sent to U.S.
Daniel Borunda / El Paso Times
Article Launched: 12/20/2008 11:34:21 PM MST
EL PASO -- The extensive drug-related violence that has turned Juárez and other Chihuahua state communities into war zones has largely stopped at the border, but the effects of the drug trade stretch far beyond the banks of the Rio Grande.
El Paso, though spared the brazen killings taking place in Mexico, has felt the power of the multibillion-dollar illicit drug trade and has become a major hub for the distribution of drugs headed to markets throughout the United States, officials said.
Stash houses, corruption, money-laundering, bulk-cash smuggling, gun-running and gang activity in El Paso are all linked to some degree to the drug war in Mexico.
The recently released National Drug Threat Assessment 2009 by the U.S. Department of Justice stated that Mexican drug-trafficking organizations "represent the greatest organized crime threat to the United States."
TOPICS: Illegal Immigration, illegal immigrants, illegal aliens, drug-related violence, Juárez, drug trade, border, Rio Grande, Mexico, .S. Department of Justice, Mexican drug-trafficking organizations, organized crime threat, smuggler territories, cocaine, Mexican narcos, illegal drug industry, El Paso-Juárez, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, 17 million legal international crossings in El Paso, National Drug Threat Assessment, Mexican cartels, Aztecas, Barrio Azteca, homicides
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llegal immigrant sentenced to 10 years on cocaine charges
Saturday, October 25 @ 07:28:33 EDT by alipac (1721 reads) | llegal immigrant sentenced to 10 years on cocaine charges
By Shelby Sebens
Staff Writer
Published: Friday, October 24, 2008 at 7:17 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, October 24, 2008 at 9:59 p.m.
A U.S. District Judge on Friday sentenced an illegal immigrant who was living in Wilmington to 10 years in prison on drug charges.
Alejandro Garcia-Hernandez, 36, pleaded guilty in July to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
A year earlier, the Pender County Sheriff’s Office discovered a large amount of cocaine was being brought into the county and a meeting for a drug transaction with Garcia-Hernandez at a store in Rocky Point had been set up.
TOPICS: Illegal Immigration, illegal immigrants, Wilmington, NC, U.S. Attorney’s Office, cocaine, drugs, crimes, laws, Armed drug traffickers, ATF,
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Mexican Drug Cartels Out of Control in the U.S. and Mexico
Monday, August 04 @ 08:12:26 EDT by admin (2524 reads) | Michael Webster, Investigative Reporter
August 03, 2008
For years now US federal officials have reported that the Mexican drug
cartels are operating in dozens of US cities, and have consolidated
their control of the entire corridor of the supply chain of illegal
drugs from deep in Mexico north to the U.S. border and beyond.
Nationwide, the Mexican drug cartels are now the dominant
distributors of wholesale quantities of cocaine, heroin,
methamphetamines and marijuana in the United States. No other group is
positioned better to expand there already nationwide operation and take
over total distribution of drugs in the south eastern part of the
country too, then are the Mexican drug cartels as they now do in the
south western part of the country.
Mexican drug cartels through their segregate organizations control the
lucrative methamphetamine trade, as the arrival of purer Mexican ice
methamphetamine has replaced locally produced powder meth, according to
the US Department of Justice.
Glen Beck of the popular show of the same name said," Atlanta has become the latest battleground for Mexican drug cartels."
"Their idea is to control the whole economic process of production
and distribution," said Georgina Sanchez, an independent security
consultant in Mexico and executive director of a public safety policy
institute.
In many areas of the United States the cartels have entered into
partnerships with local gangs, in others they have directly assumed
control of local drug distribution, analysts say.
Topics: Drugs, meth, cocaine, cartels, gangs, illegal alien importers, Americans, children, destruction, addiction, paramilitary, Glen Beck, murders, kidnapping
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Illegal immigration, drug trafficking on rise along I-80
Sunday, June 22 @ 10:20:43 EDT by alipac (4234 reads) | Sunday, Jun. 22, 2008
Illegal immigration, drug trafficking on rise along I-80
Pete Bosak
Motorists traveling Interstate 80 would likely be stunned if they knew how much criminal activity was riding along the highway with them.
In 2007, Rockview state police arrested 109 illegal immigrants on I-80 in Centre County. Already this year, state police at Rockview have nabbed 157 illegal immigrants on the highway.
Illegal immigrants and drug runners with fistfuls of cash and packages of narcotics travel the highway, police say.
And state police troopers based at Rockview are doing something about it.
TOPICS: Illegal Immigration, illegal immigrants, traveling Interstate 80, drug trafficking, I-80, state police troopers, drug runners, Centre County, Safe Highway Initiative Through Effective Law Enforcement Detection, or SHIELD, drug money, criminal activity,
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Two Canadians arrested on charges of running massive cocaine and marijuana ring
Friday, June 06 @ 21:10:03 EDT by alipac (2332 reads) | Friday, June 6, 2008 - Page updated at 12:36 PM
Two Canadians arrested on charges of running massive cocaine and marijuana ring
By Mike Carter
Seattle Times staff reporter
A three-year undercover operation has resulted in the arrests of a pair of British Columbia men who federal prosecutors say ran a sophisticated drug distribution ring for the Hells Angels.
Over the course of the investigation, agents from Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and the Drug Enforcement Administration and others seized more than 1,300 pounds of cocaine, 7,000 pounds of "B.C. Bud" marijuana and nearly $3.5 million in cash. In all, 38 people have been charged, according to the U.S. attorney's office in Seattle.
An indictment issued in Seattle accuses Robert Shannon, 38, of Maple Ridge, B.C., and Devron D. Quast, 38, of Abbotsford, B.C., of running a massive cocaine and marijuana ring that has used everything from hollowed-out logs to backpackers crossing the rugged North Cascades to smuggle drugs into the U.S. Also named in the indictment were three Snohomish County residents and one Whatcom County resident.
TOPICS: Illegal Immigration, illegal immigratnst, drugs, crimes, laws, ICE, British Columbia, Canada, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Drug Enforcement Administration, cocaine, marijuana
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$1 million cash discovered in 18-wheeler
Sunday, January 27 @ 10:59:35 EST by alipac (2485 reads) | $1 million cash discovered in 18-wheeler
By Daniel Borunda / El Paso Times
Article Launched: 01/26/2008 08:48:07 PM MST
The recent discovery of nearly $1 million in cash hidden in an 18-wheeler could be part of a trail of bulk money shipments that pass through El Paso on their way to drug traffickers in Mexico, authorities said.
"It's a regular thing for drugs to come in, and there is no reason not to believe it (money) is not heading south," said Matthew Taylor, a spokesman for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration office in El Paso.
On Jan. 18, an El Paso County sheriff's deputy stopped a tractor-trailer for weaving in and out of traffic on Interstate 10 and eventually led a drug- sniffing dog to wrapped bundles containing nearly $1 million in cash in the rig, sheriff's officials said.
The incident was one of the largest cash seizures by deputies in El Paso in recent years. Few other details were released because the case remains under investigation by the sheriff's Special Operations Division, sheriff's spokesman Deputy Jesse Tovar said.
TOPICS: Illegal Immigration, Illegal Immigarants, Illegal aliens, El Paso, drug traffickers in Mexico, Deputy Jesse Tovar, drug money, narco-businesses, Mexican drug-trafficking rings, ice methamphetamine, Narcotics, DEA, drug cartels, chemical brokers,
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Border Patrol Agents Seize More Than a Ton of Marijuana
Friday, January 25 @ 09:28:42 EST by alipac (2044 reads) | Friday, 25 January 2008
Border Patrol Agents Seize More Than a Ton of Marijuana
Edinburg, Texas
Border Patrol agents assigned to the Rio Grande Valley Sector seized more than one ton of marijuana in two separate incidents. The value of the narcotics is close to $2 million.
On Sunday, Border Patrol agents assigned to the Rio Grande City Border Patrol station observed suspicious activity while performing routine patrol in Escobares, Texas, near the Rio Grande River. Agents witnessed several subjects place large bundles of possible narcotics into a gray Ford F-250 truck.
When the driver of the truck headed north from the river, responding agents attempted to execute a vehicle stop. The driver abruptly turned the truck around and headed back toward the Rio Grande River. Several subjects were observed abandoning the vehicle and swimming back to Mexico.
TOPICS: Illegal Immigration, Illegal Immigratiant, Durgs, Crimes, laws, Rio Grande Valley, marijuana, narcotics, Border Patrol agents, Escobares, Texas, Mexico, Rio Grande River, Anzalduas Park, Mission, Texas, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
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| Sunday, April 15 | | · | Domestic marijuana has ties to Mexico |
| Wednesday, March 28 | | · | 3 Charged With Making Bogus Documents |
| Saturday, March 17 | | · | $206 million in U.S. currency seized in drug raid |
| Thursday, January 18 | | · | How locals can best help feds enforce immigration laws |
| Sunday, January 07 | | · | 22 Pounds Of Cocaine Seized During Traffic Stop |
| Thursday, January 04 | | · | L.A. mayor seeks federal aid to combat gangs |
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