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Vehicle Thefts, Southern Arizona
By John W. Slagle
February 15, 2006
Vehicle theft in Arizona as well as many Border States is attributable to organized crime cadres in Mexico. Vehicles are stolen, often carjacked and sold or used by smugglers of contraband or human cargos.

The violence of narcotics traffickers on both sides of the line is finally gaining national attention from Texas to the West Coast. The incident at Neely’s crossing near El Paso with alleged Mexican Military personnel protecting the “off loading of bundles of marijuanaâ€