Tag: Cash Smuggling

U.S. authorities are tracking down the individuals behind a shipment of $1 million dollars headed south to Mexico’s Gulf Cartel.

REYNOSA, Tamaulipas — Autoridades Mexicanas han decomisado casi un millón de dólares que estaban ocultos dentro de un autobús que partió de esta ciudad hacia el centro del país. El narco-efectivo estaba destinado a algún lugar del estado de Puebla, una zona que por años estuvo libre de la presencia abierta de carteles pero en meses recientes se ha visto azotada por el crimen organizado.

REYNOSA, Tamaulipas — Mexican authorities seized almost a million dollars hidden in a passenger bus bound for Puebla, a state that for years was free from an open cartel presence until recently.

MONTERREY, Nuevo León — La llegada dinero ilícito de la frontera de Texas hacia México sigue sin ser detectada por las autoridades de ambos países en los puentes internacionales luego de que oficiales de la Policía Federal detuvieron a un conductor que ocultaba 75 mil dólares en sus botas vaqueras y camioneta.

MONTERREY, Nuevo León — The arrival of cash from Texas into Mexico continues to avoid detection from authorities on both sides of the border. Mexican Federales patrolling the highways stopped a driver who had $75,000 hidden in the man’s cowboy boots.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers stopped nearly $40,000 in cash from being smuggled into Mexico, likely into the hands of a Mexican drug cartel.

Border Patrol agents in southern California seized nearly $300,000 in “illicit cash” from a suspected smuggler headed south.

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Federal and local authorities continue to look into the how a pair of men tied to Mexico’s Gulf Cartel tried to move more than half a million dollars. The failed smuggling attempt has resulted in some safety concerns for the suspects involved.

Sospechosos de contrabando de dinero en efectivo fracasaron en su intento de utilizar una avioneta privada para trasladar una grande cantidad de dinero de la ciudad fronteriza de Estados Unidos, McAllen, a la ciudad mexicana de Monterrey.

REYNOSA, Tamaulipas — Suspected cartel cash smugglers failed in their attempt to use a small private airplane to move a large quantity of money from the Texas border city of McAllen to the Mexican city of Monterrey. According to information provided by Mexican authorities to Breitbart Texas, the airplane is a U.S. Cessna registered to Carlos Humberto Diez De Pinos in Laredo, Texas.

MCALLEN, Texas — Texas State Troopers seized more than a million dollars in cartel money from Chicago that was destined for Mexico. The seizure took place Monday morning near Edinburg, Texas, when a state trooper pulled over a 2007 Peterbilt tractor towing a trailer, information provided to Breitbart Texas by DPS revealed.

In just one week British police have seized up to £2.5 million worth of heroin and over 175,000 pints of beer being smuggled in to Britain during a police crackdown on organised crime. The operation also resulted in the interception of £500,000 police believe

The U.S. government has unmasked one of the main drug traffickers and money launderers for the Gulf Cartel, a man who used his gasoline business in Mexico as a front for operations that reached deep into South Texas.