Drug Smuggling - Page 9

A Texas sheriff’s deputy seized nearly $3 million in methamphetamine following a routine traffic stop between San Antonio and Houston. The deputy, and his K-9 partner, routinely make multi-million dollar drug seizures and find large quantities of cash proceeds from narcotics trafficking.

Drug smugglers attempting to move nearly 300 pounds of marijuana into the U.S. deployed potentially deadly weapons against pursuing Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents. Two days later, a pair of human smugglers used their vehicle as a weapon and struck a Border Patrol vehicle — injuring the agent inside.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers stopped a Mexican national who allegedly attempted to smuggle nearly $600,000 in cash across the Arizona border into Mexico.

Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley Sector busted previously deported sex offenders and gang members after they crossed from Mexico in the past week. The agents also disrupted several shipments of drugs.

A former governor of Tamaulipas, Mexico, is finally expected to appear in a U.S. federal court after spending close to five years on the run from U.S. federal authorities. The cartel-connected governor will face a U.S. federal judge for his initial hearing in connection with 11 charges including drug trafficking and money laundering.

A Mexican national was reportedly arrested for smuggling bags of various illegal drugs on horses after Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents came to the aid of a local police department.

Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley Sector stopped the marijuana shipments of two drug smugglers near the Texas border with Mexico. The agents seized more than $2.5 million in marijuana in three separate incidents.

Federal authorities arrested the head of a phone encryption service accused of creating and marketed products to be used by domestic drug traffickers and international cartels.

A Texas sheriff’s deputy and his K-9 partner busted two Mexican nationals allegedly transporting $6 million in methamphetamine hidden in the fuel tank of their vehicle.

Border Patrol agents in the Tucson Sector assisted Arizona Department of Public Safety (DPS) troopers in stopping a fleeing suspect later determined to be smuggling marijuana. The agents helped track down the suspects who fled on foot following a high-speed chase on Friday afternoon. In a separate incident, agents assigned to the Interstate 19 checkpoint stopped a teenager who allegedly attempted to smuggle 59 pounds of methamphetamine through.

SALTILLO, Coahuila — El alcalde de un municipio rural de este estado fronterizo se mantiene en silencio luego de que policías federales encontraron un cargamento de marijuana en un camión que presuntamente pertenece a su compañía de transportes.

SALTILLO, Coahuila — The mayor of a rural municipality in this border state is silent after federal police found a shipment of marijuana in a truck that allegedly belongs to his transportation company.

McALLEN, Texas — Federal authorities arrested a Texas teacher on charges for allegedly working with a Mexican cartel to smuggle drugs into the U.S.

U.S. Customs officers arrested a Mexican woman who allegedly smuggled 48 pounds of marijuana under and around the car seats of five children.

NUEVO LAREDO, Tamaulipas — Presuntos narcotraficantes que pertenecen al Cartel del Noreste fueron sorprendidos y detenidos por soldados mexicanos en los momentos en que bajaban un cargamento de mas de 600 kilos de marihuana que recién les había llegado.

NUEVO LAREDO, Tamaulipas — Suspected smugglers with the Cartel Del Noreste, the main faction of Los Zetas, were caught by Mexican soldiers as they were in the process of unloading a new shipment of more than 1,400 pounds of marijuana that they had just received.

A traffic stop led Mexican authorities to seize enough fentanyl to kill millions of people as well as almost 1,000 pounds of crystal methamphetamine and other drugs that were headed to the California border.

U.S. prosecutors charged a Honduran Congressman with using his position to help large-scale drug traffickers move cocaine from Columbia to Honduras and then into the United States.

State and federal law enforcement agencies teamed up to seize more than a ton of marijuana in the tiny Texas border town of Falcon.

U.S. Coast Guard officials seized nearly seven tons of cocaine–and an entangled sea turtle–during an operation in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The turtle survived the potentially deadly encounter with the drugs that had been set adrift by smugglers.

PHOENIX, Arizona — Federal agents continue encountering sophisticated drug smuggling operations whose members use radio communication systems, scouts, and other measures to avoid capture.

A woman connected to the Sinaloa drug cartel received a sentence of 12 and a half years for smuggling 21 pounds of pure methamphetamine into California.

Cartel smugglers used a Mexican federal healthcare truck in an attempt to move almost 600 pounds of cocaine. The smugglers hid the cocaine inside medical equipment while transporting it to the border city of Reynosa.

Un camión del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social fue utilizado por capos del narcotráfico para intentar hacer llegar a la frontera con Estados Unidos un cargamento de 371 kilos de cocaína que iban ocultos en un aparato de uso medico.

Traficantes relacionados con el Cartel de Sinaloa continúan usando cañones de aire para lanzar paquetes de drogas sobre la cerca que es la linea divisoria entre Sonora y Arizona.

Smugglers from the Sinaloa Cartel continue using air-powered cannons to launch drug bundles over the fence that marks the border between Arizona and Sonora.

Mexican drug cartels continue being the greatest criminal threat to America and are largely to blame for the current opioid crisis striking most of the nation, a new assessment by the U.S Drug Enforcement Administration revealed.

A federal judge sentenced an illegal alien from Mexico to prison after he pleaded guilty to being part of a cartel rip crew operating in Texas. The criminal alien received ten years in prison for his role in a rolling shootout along a Texas highway.

HELSINKI (AP) — A Norwegian court has sentenced a former police officer to 21 years in prison for severe corruption and being an accomplice in one of Norway’s biggest drug-smuggling cases.

RIO GRANDE CITY, Texas — A Gulf Cartel drug smuggler trying to move a load of marijuana into Texas tried to use his vehicle as a weapon to ram a Border Patrol agent pursuing him. The agent was forced to fire his handgun four times at the suspect’s vehicle, but the smuggler swam back to Mexico.

A federal judge sentenced a U.S. Border Patrol for his part in a ruse to steal drugs. The former long-serving agent pleaded guilty after he helped carry out a fake drug seizure in order to hide the theft of 66 kilograms of cocaine.

A regional commander for Los Zetas will spend 30 years in prison for his role in the smuggling of more than 40,000 pounds of marijuana into Texas over a span of seven years. The boss was arrested by Texas State Troopers on gunboats when he tried to escape Mexican soldiers.

PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila — State police officers captured a team of drug smugglers that were getting ready to move a load into Texas. The seizure comes at a time when authorities have stepped up operations to prevent cartel violence.

As the surge of illegal aliens continues to mount in South Texas, Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley (RGV) Sector capped off a busy day by arresting one group of 86 illegal aliens and seizing more than $1 million worth of marijuana. Agents also carried out a rescue of an illegal alien lost in the brush and, unfortunately, recovered the remains of another migrant who was not as lucky. All of these incidents occurred in the RGV Sector on Monday.

Mexican authorities confirmed the seizure of 40,000 pounds of chemicals used to manufacture meth on a ship from China.

Border Patrol agents in the Laredo Sector arrested a previously deported sex offender after he attempted to illegally re-enter the U.S.