Thread: CBP Air and Marine Crews Disrupt Drug Smuggling Attempts Worth $800 MILLION

If these reports are at all accurate about amounts and street value for those losses to be absorbed it begs the question, "How much illegal drug makes it to market and then the proceeds get back to the shipper??

It must be more than a few hundred tons. If we are losing the drug war, it is probably because we have never adequately enforced the law. As we don't enforce immigration law either, and crossing the border illegally is common to both.

2 TONS OF MARIJUANA SEIZED AT TEXAS INLAND BORDER CHECKPOINT

Photo: U.S. Customs and Border Protection

by BOB PRICE 19 Jun 20154

U.S. Border Patrol Agents discovered more than 4,000 pounds of marijuana on Thursday in a tractor-trailer at the inland border checkpoint located on I-35 between San Antonio and Laredo. Agents were alerted to the possibility of drugs by a K-9 assigned to the checkpoint.

Agents asked the driver to move the rig to a secondary inspection station, according to a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) press release obtained by Breitbart Texas.

Using a non-intrusive scanner, agents discovered anomalies in the trailer and began a physical inspection of the contents.

The inspection revealed 380 bundles containing what would later test positive as being marijuana. The bundles were contained in cardboard boxes filled with Styrofoam cups.

Marijuana Bundle packed in the middle of Styrofoam cups. (Photo: U.S. Customs and Border Protection)

The marijuana weighed 4,174.83 pounds. It has an estimated street value of $3,339,864.00. The driver, vehicle, and narcotics were transferred to the custody of the Drug Enforcement Administration for investigation.

“This is an indication of the amount of drugs actually being smuggled into the United States,” said Border Patrol Agent Hector Garza, president of the National Border Patrol Council Local 2455, in an interview with Breitbart Texas. “When the agency invests in assets like these highly trained K-9s and handlers, these are the results you will see.”

“The K-9 team is crucial to the checkpoints,” Garza explained. “They literally have seconds to determine if a secondary inspection is needed as the thousands of cars, trucks and buses pass through here every day.”

More than two-tons of marijuana seized by Border Patrol. (Photo: U.S. Customs and Border Protection)

“This is more than 4,000 pounds of marijuana that the cartels will not be able to deliver to the streets,” he concluded. “Our hard working Border Patrol agents put their lives on the line every day and night to stop these drugs and their smugglers.”

The North Laredo checkpoint is currently located 29 miles north of Laredo, Texas. The 15-acre complex includes facilities to process all automobiles, semi-tractor trailers and other commercial vehicles like busses and travel vans. It also includes a 5,000 square foot administration building that houses a processing area, a sally port, offices and detention facilities.

In addition to traffic through the checkpoint, the agents assigned to this station also cover about 430 square miles, including 30 miles of river border along the Rio Grande River.

Bob Price is a senior political news contributor for Breitbart Texas and a member of the original Breitbart Texas team.

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http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2015/...er-checkpoint/

With this loss and legal marijuana in three states they absorb these losses and keep shipping. Sell, so much for taxed legal marijuana would be so cheap it would put illegal Mary Jane out o f business. What proof do w need that politicians do not have a clue what they talk about! So, I have to proffer just a guess that at least 12,000 lbs. somehow and some way made it to the USA.

Originally Posted by kevinssdad

If these reports are at all accurate about amounts and street value for those losses to be absorbed it begs the question, "How much illegal drug makes it to market and then the proceeds get back to the shipper??

It must be more than a few hundred tons. If we are losing the drug war, it is probably because we have never adequately enforced the law. As we don't enforce immigration law either, and crossing the border illegally is common to both.

The illegal drug trade is over $300 billion a year in sales, at least, because as of a few years ago a report by a Congressional committee revealed that over $240 billion a year of illegal drug sold in the US comes across the Southern Border alone. The name of that report was The Southwest Border: A Line In the Sand. 70% of the items were marijuana and 30% cocaine with some small amount of heroine, because most heroine comes in through the ports or in other ways from other parts of the world. I don't think the report discussed meth at that time, but meth is now coming in as well I guess. At that time, I think most of the meth was produced here in the states.

The illegal drug trade is a huge enterprise, larger than $300 billion by now. That report was at least 7 years ago and drug sales grow every year with the population. The states that have legalized marijuana will be tapping into that to some degree for the medical marijuana and to a lesser degree the recreational marijuana because for now there are fewer states that have legalized recreational pot. As more states legalize, then more pot will be produced and sold here which will start to put a big dent in this illegal drug trade since 70% of it is marijuana, at least coming in over the Southern Border.