Posted on 08/24/2014 1:24:33 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
MCALLEN, Texas Border Patrol agents seized more than $650,000 in cash that had been left behind near the Rio Grande River that separates Texas from Mexico.
The seizure was made Thursday night when U.S. Border Patrol Agents following a set of footprints near Sullivan City ended up coming across four backpacks filled with bulk cash and a little more than a kilo of cocaine, an agency news release shows.
Inside the four backpacks the agents ended up finding a mixture of dollars and pesos that added up to $650,000 as well as the cocaine which had a value of $90,000.
Just west of Sullivan City, in Rio Grande City, border patrol agents seized 20 rounds of .50 caliber ammunition, 1o of the rounds were incendiary, five armor piercing and five regular rounds, the news release shows.
Drug smugglers having heavy firepower is typically seen in Mexico, however in recent years federal, state and local authorities have been coming across drug traffickers with grenades and assault weapons.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Wow. Why couldn’t I find these backpacks! Grind the coke into the dirt and keep the druggy’s money
’ During the raid at an Alton stash house, investigators seized 19 firearms, a grenades, 56 pounds of marijuana and 18.5 pounds of meth, court records show. Investigators also arrested three men who are now facing state drug trafficking charges.’
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“a grenades”, who writes this stuff or who is supposed to proofread it, both need to go back to high school for remedial English, after being fired of course.
With the right rifle, in the wrong place, some could cause a lot of mayhem with those 20 rounds.
Who writes? My guess is POGO. -—he are us?
But really. Every place I’ve seen that river bank there is way too much brush which is cover for wetbacks. Maybe burning it isn’t quite the right idea but mowing it seems to be indicated. The big mower that our local highway guys use to keep the shoulders mowed ought to work just fine. It’s self leveling-—just made to work on a highway or river bank slope and chops the krap out of anything that doesn’t belong there. I’m getting a vision of that chopper hitting a bag of green bills and white powder-—spectacular.
Agent Orange?
That was me!
yep, you nailed it....
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