A Texas sheriff’s deputy seized nearly $110,000 in cash during a traffic stop on Interstate 10 — nearly 250 miles from the Mexican border. The deputy reportedly found the cash in body carriers on a Mexican woman traveling with her husband and a juvenile male.
A Border Patrol K-9 in the El Centro Sector is credited with the discovery of a flamethrower, a gun, and approximately $233,000 in cash. An additional $19,000 was also sniffed out in a separate incident, officials stated.
A Texas border judge appears to have set a $5,000 bond on a woman from Mexico who is facing money laundering charges. Authorities stopped the woman from trying to cross to Mexico with $250,000 and two handguns.
Passengers on a bus in South Texas failed to claim a box containing nearly $200,000 in cash after Border Patrol agents found the stash. Agents also found an additional $500 in unclaimed counterfeit currency.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers intercepted a load of cash being smuggled from Texas into Mexico. The officers seized more than $100,000 in U.S. $100 bills and other currency taped to a woman’s body.
CBP Air and Marine Operations (AMO) crews teamed up with other law enforcement agencies to interdict a boat traveling from the U.S. to the Bahamas with unreported currency onboard.
Houlton Sector Border Patrol agents arrested a Chinese woman after she illegally crossed the border from Canada. During a search, the agents found the woman to be in possession of 13 gold bars and $10,000 in U.S. currency.
Laredo Sector Customs and Border Protection officers seized more than $45,000 in U.S. cash that an alleged smuggler attempted to take into Mexico. The seizure occurred on the international bridge from Laredo, Texas, to Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico.
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.
