Posted on 11/17/2004 4:23:20 PM PST by bayourod
Washington D.C. – In the last five days, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Border Patrol agents seized over 10,700 pounds of marijuana and 88 pounds of cocaine along the southwest border stretching from California to Texas.
With the increased security along our borders, smugglers of both humans and contraband continue to test our resolve to protect this nation,” said David Aguilar, National Border Patrol Chief. “These significant seizures illustrate our commitment to defend our country against all threats.”
On November 15th, a CBP Border Patrol agent assigned to the Nogales, Arizona Station seized 995 pounds of marijuana, valued at $796,520.00 and arrested a Mexican national. A canine alerted to the rear section of a truck. Fifty-two bundles of marijuana were located in a hollowed out section in a stack of plywood in the rear of the truck.
On November 14th, CBP Border Patrol agents assigned to the Laredo North Border Patrol station seized 89 pounds of marijuana, valued at $71,200.00, and arrested a Mexican national at the I-35 immigration checkpoint. A canine alerted to a false compartment inside the vehicle’s gas tank. The subject, vehicle and contraband were turned over to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
On November 13th, CBP Border Patrol agents assigned to the Casa Grande, Arizona Border Patrol station seized 1,259 pounds of marijuana valued at $1,007,200.00. The occupants abandoned the vehicle ran and ran into the desert. The agents discovered 54 bundles of marijuana inside the cab and bed of the vehicle. The fleeing occupants were not found. Further investigation reveled that the vehicle had been stolen from El Mirage, Arizona.
On November 12th, CBP Border Patrol agents assigned to the Zapata, Texas Border Patrol station assisted in the seizure of 3,628 pounds of marijuana valued at $2,903,120.00.
On November 11th, CBP Border Patrol agents assigned to the Laredo South Border Patrol station arrested two United States citizens and seized 216 pounds of marijuana valued at $172,800.00. The seizure followed a vehicle stop from which the vehicle initially fled and failed to yield. Shortly thereafter, the vehicle became disabled due to mechanical failure.
Later that day, CBP Border Patrol agents assigned to the Rio Grande City Border Patrol station and the HIDTA Task Force assisted with the service of a search warrant on a home located in Roma, Texas which resulted in the seizure of 2,154 pounds of marijuana valued at $1,723,200.00.
On November 10th, CBP Border Patrol agents assigned to the Calexico Border Patrol station arrested a Mexican national who was observed driving northbound, crossing the international boundary illegally near Calexico, California. Agents deployed a Controlled Tire Deflation Device (CTDD), causing the vehicle to come to a controlled stop. The vehicle was searched and 1,085 pounds of marijuana valued at $868,160.00, was discovered inside the vehicle.
Later that morning, a CBP Border Patrol Canine Team assigned to the El Paso Border Patrol station responded to a call for assistance from the El Paso Police Department Ground Rail Air Bus (GRAB) Unit at the El Paso Truck Terminal. El Paso Police Department Officers were given consent to search a vehicles interior after a Border Patrol canine alerted to the cab. A search resulted in the discovery of two hidden compartments containing approximately 88 pounds of cocaine valued at $2,821,920.00. The driver and passenger were arrested.
That evening, CBP Border Patrol agents assigned to the Laredo North Border Patrol station seized 1,205 pounds of marijuana valued at $964,000.00. The agents were working a joint operation with DEA and stopped a pick-up truck they suspected was loaded. After discovering the narcotics inside the truck, the vehicle fled and led the agents on a pursuit. A Controlled Tire Deflation Device was deployed and disabled the vehicle. The occupants abandoned the vehicle and were not found. The vehicle and narcotics were turned over to the DEA.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is the unified border agency within the Department of Homeland Security charged with the management, control, and protection of our Nation's borders at and between the official ports of entry. CBP is charged with keeping terrorists and terrorist weapons out of the country while enforcing hundreds of U.S. laws.
Which means 15 tons made it through, over that period of time.
One of the side benefits of the War on Terror.
I wonder what they're going to so with all that pot.
O and at least 25 years of prison for those smuggling in drugs, weapons, or people.
That's a lot of mary warner. Round here 1 oz of OK weed goes for 225. The stuff should be legal.
Dittos. Absotively and posilutely.
And 1500 bags of Oreos
Incinerate it.
If you make marijuana legal, everybody under the age of 60 will be so stoned that the country will grind to a halt. Our drug laws are the only thing that keeps people from whacking out on drugs. Gun laws work too. (/sarcasm)
Downwind.
How much are they charging for an ounce?
This is five tons of Mexican weed that won't be taking any jobs from Kentucky homegrown.
I don't believe the incineraters allow any "happy smoke" to escape.
Build a wall! I'd be happy to pay an extra thousand dollars in taxes to build an electrified 20' wall from the mouth of the Rio Grande to AZ. Let the liberal Californian's pay for their own.
Put the pot out in the open, build a 10 foot tall barbed wire electrified fence around it with a grandstand upwind, also surrounded by barbed wire (with one gate).
Invite the local Libertarian party to sit in the grandstand, set fire to the pot, and watch them all cry like babies.
7) Incarcerate criminal Mexican illegals in Mexican prisons & monitor same
But especially the threat of people feeling better than the government approves of.
They must use activated charcoal.
Wrap it in little rice-paper rolls then incinerate them with friends at a Bob Marley festival.
Damn!
I believe it's simply very high heat and forced draft.
El Presidenta Fox is not going to be happy about losing all this inventory. He has buyers that paid deposits and now he has to cover those losses from his own pocket. No, not happy at all!
There is really no reason except Political Correctness, excuse me "Liberal Speech Orthodoxy" not to make these capital offenses. And I'm not just being a nasty conservative hater here, these people are killers and should be treated accordingly. Course I think ALL border jumpers ought to do some hard time, so you can see where I'm coming from.
It is the same in Iraq. When we go easy on the terrorist in the name of the media and LSO, the REAL innocent people DIE. It's unconscionable. And it needs to stop.
You're in luck. I just started an organization called Build A Wall to lobby Congress to build a wall. Send me your $10,000 via FR and I'll call a Congressman, or put out a press release or something.
I've always wanted to see what would happen if they were to have a big honkin' bon fire with this stuff. Just smog-out the south side of Austin, for example. People just might drive a lot friendlier around here. Then there would be the predictable run on Twinkies and Ho-Hos.
We catch 5 tons, another 15 tons got through.
Thanks. You beat me to it!! :~)
$50 per ounce. Seems low, but still quite lucrative for a something that grows like a weed.
Considering the gun ownership in Austin I'd be kind of worried about road rage at the fast food drive through lanes.
As has been explained to you before, the phrase "open borders" doesn't mean that NOBODY is guarding our borders. "Open borders" is a relative term. It isn't used in a literal sense when describing our borders.
But I know that anti-white racist organizations like La Raza, LULAC, MALDEF, and MEChA would love to see literal open borders between the United States and Mexico.
ol' hoghead
One of the side benefits of the War on Terror.
Exactly what I was thinking! Sounds to me like the rumors of nuclear devices coming in through the Mexican border are being taken seriously.
You wanna pay to lock 'em up? Do you know how many of them live in Mexico? Prison would be Club Med compared to where they came.
"The stuff should be legal." Certainly hemp should be legal. I'm convinced alcohol is a much more destructive drug than pot.
I'm talking bout good old mary warner. I don't know if prohibition is the way to go on the drugs I personally despise, such as heroin and cocaine, but with weed it's not that tough a decision for me. I quite enjoy the stuff, and hope to for years to come.
Yeah, that's way too low. An oz. in NJ is more like 225.
Somebody has been gettin high around here.
Mairjuana is for girly men. Smoke crack and grow a pair.
You might like to look at this site that a friend just sent me.
http://www.immigrationshumancost.org/text/crimevictims.html
I commend the Border Patrol. They do a great job. Too bad they don't have some interior enforcement help. I know they'd stop the 3 to 4 thousand illegals that cross that border a day and get away if they could.
YOu radical pothead you.
They can recoup part of that by selling the tires after they take them off.
In NJ the people who want it have to pay the transportation costs, middle men, extra risk factors that Californians don't.
In California and ounce of Mexican weed sells on the street for $70-$120 per ounce depending on how many hands its been through... This compares to $400 for high quality skunk or mven more for 'chronic'. The black gangs seem to have a handle on the 'chronic' wholesale market around here.
Or at least, that's what I've been told. :0
Well, they have a powerful incentive to keep it illegal, don't they?
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