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Feds say ladder used for border smuggling
Houston Chronicle ^
| Feb. 15, 2011
| EMMA PEREZ-TREVINO
Posted on 02/15/2011 11:27:50 AM PST by humblegunner
Surveillance stopped a pair of alleged drug smugglers from hauling about 273 kilos of marijuana over the border fence with the help of a ladder, public records reflect.
A U.S. Border Patrol agent on Thursday saw 10 people coming out of the Rio Grande carrying bundles and a ladder near the Rancho Grande Subdivision in La Paloma.
The agent saw the suspects use the ladder to get the bundles over the border fence, according to the complaint filed before U.S. Magistrate Judge Felix Recio in federal court.
The complaint states that the agent also saw a green minivan drive in the area on the opposite side of the border fence. The agent followed the vehicle to a vacant home site north of U.S. Highway 281. The driver and passenger exited the vehicle and began to run away in an attempt to evade arrest.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: aliens; blogpimp; drugs; ladder; smuggling
Dang, a ladder.
This high-tech stuff is hard to figure out.
To: humblegunner
I guess I’m just mean-spirited.
I’d have cut half-way through some of the rungs and sat back and watched.
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posted on
02/15/2011 11:29:56 AM PST
by
Hodar
(Who needs laws .... when this "feels" so right?)
To: humblegunner
We obviously need ladder control laws, three day waiting periods and a permit to carry.............
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posted on
02/15/2011 11:31:55 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Want to be surprised? Google your own name. Want to have fun? Google your friend's names.....)
To: humblegunner
Electrified fencing, it works wonders.
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posted on
02/15/2011 11:44:55 AM PST
by
Darksheare
(I shook hands with Sheryl Crow and all I got was Typhus and a single sheet of toilet paper.)
To: humblegunner
Just a wild guess. It wasn’t the double fence with the Border Patrol road in between. More like the parts of the single fence that CNN kept showing on TV with illegals climbing over it back when CNN was protesting the Secure Fence Act?
Just a wild guess, mind you.
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posted on
02/15/2011 11:45:24 AM PST
by
pissant
((Bachmann 2012 - Freepmail to get on/off PING list))
To: humblegunner
"Surveillance stopped a pair of alleged drug smugglers from hauling about 273 kilos of marijuana over the border fence with the help of a ladder"
No, THE FENCE stopped them. The surveillance was purely secondary.
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posted on
02/15/2011 11:49:10 AM PST
by
Christian Engineer Mass
(25ish Cambridge, MA grad student. Any potential conservative Christian FReepmail-FRiends out there?)
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posted on
02/15/2011 11:54:07 AM PST
by
HiJinx
(What new decade?)
To: humblegunner
Actually there may be a good use for PIT BULLS..
Call them Border Bullies.. to scare the bejesus out of all the Jesus's.. coming accoss the border..
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posted on
02/15/2011 12:04:14 PM PST
by
hosepipe
(This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
To: humblegunner
Wow what clever guys, they can sure outsmart us huh?
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posted on
02/15/2011 12:05:59 PM PST
by
RnMomof7
To: humblegunner
a pair of alleged drug smugglers from hauling about 273 kilos of marijuana over the border fence Strong dudes. That's about 300 pounds a piece.
To: antiRepublicrat
Strong dudes. That's about 300 pounds a piece. Masked wrestlers maybe.
I'm still fawning over the ladder technology.
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posted on
02/15/2011 12:43:01 PM PST
by
humblegunner
(Blogger Overlord)
To: humblegunner
The First Wookie should be all over this. Can you imagine the obesity that would be caused by the Munchies from 273 Kilos of weed? Maybe the fast-food chains have a hand in this.
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posted on
02/15/2011 1:03:37 PM PST
by
USMCPOP
(Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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