Thread: More than 2,000 pounds of pot seized

http://www.elpasotimes.com/breakingnews/ci_4862021

More than 2,000 pounds of pot seized (3:22 p.m.)
Times staff report
El Paso Times
Article Launched: 12/18/2006

CBP Border Patrol agents in Fort Hancock, Texas-seized over 1,003 pounds of marijuana in a pickup truck Saturday, marking the largest of a series of recent drug interdictions throughout the El Paso Sector.
At approximately 5:45 p.m. Saturday, Border Patrol agents working east of Fort Hancock became aware of a vehicle that entered illegally into the United States. When agents responded to the area, they encountered a Ford pickup with New Mexico license plates traveling westbound on Highway Texas 20. A check on the plates revealed the vehicle had been stolen from Albuquerque.

When agents attempted to pull the vehicle over, the vehicle fled westbound into Tornillo, Texas.The vehicle continued its flight onto a dirt road where the driver stopped and fled on foot.

A Texas National Guard solider at an Entry Identification Team (EIT) site utilizing infrared camera technology observed the general location where the subject fled and communicated the subject s position to Border Patrol. Using a CBP canine, agents located the individual, a 25- year old male from Mexico, and placed him under arrest. The abandoned truck contained 1,003 pounds of marijuana, valued at $802,728.

In New Mexico, CBP Border Patrol agents had an equally successful weekend, seizing 1,038 pounds of marijuana, valued at $830,912, in seven separate incidents. The total value of marijuana seized for the weekend by agents in Texas and New Mexico (El Paso Sector) was $1,633,640.

The narcotics and subjects were turned over to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Dona Ana County Sheriff s Department for disposition. All vehicles involved in the smuggling attempts were seized by Border Patrol.

"Border Patrol agents working east of Fort Hancock became aware of a vehicle that entered illegally into the United States. "

A vehicle that enters a country illegaly...

NOW WHY ISN'T THAT A WAKE UP CALL?



I realize that the basic problem is the Feds lack of political will to control illegal immigration, the border and internal security, but when a vehicle can cross an international border...

WHAT A JOKE!!!!!!!!!!

and these idiots in DC still insist we dont need a fence???

we really should forward them all these articles that we post in regards to people getting killed and drug shipment busts
and say you still think we dont need a damn fence???
and you still think a virtual fence would work???