Thread: Invader arrested for smuggling stolen wedding dresses

Mexican national arrested for smuggling millions in stolen wedding dresses

Seven months after suspicious customs agents pulled over a semi with a trailer full of stolen wedding dresses, U.S. authorities have arrested a Mexican national living in Arizona for his part in a scheme that must have been inspired by NAFTA.

According to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Alejandro Parra-Ruiz, 32, a Mexico national and legal resident living in Laveen, AZ, hired a commercial truck driver to transport the dresses from Mexico into Arizona.

The Oregon-based Making Memories Breast Cancer Foundation reported the dresses stolen in November 2006.

After the dresses were stolen, they apparently were taken south of the U.S.-Mexico border before customs agents noticed a suspicious truck and trailer attempting to enter the U.S. at the Mariposa Port of Entry in Nogales, AZ. Customs officials noticed the trailer was partially covered with masking tape.

Agents later found the words, “Making Memoriesâ€

woooooooooo ... this is a new low....

these people have no morales when it comes to other people... you are nothing more than a stepping stone whether you have cancer or not.

Only when it comes to them do the values come out

That's freakin' low.