Drug Smuggling - Page 12

The 1980s and early 1990s were very busy times for the US Coast Guard with regards to maritime drug interdiction in Caribbean waters. After the demise of Colombian cartels, much of that drug traffic shifted to land routes in Mexico and across our southwest border.

A woman known throughout the online world for her photos depicting a lavish jet-setting lifestyle is now facing drug trafficking charges after U.S. authorities found close to six kilos of cocaine in her luxury car.

Two churches in a rural community near the Texas border were intentionally set on fire almost simultaneously. Investigators of the crime are puzzled about the motive for the fires.

Texas authorities caught an alleged drug trafficker who they say was on his way to smuggle more than 45 kilograms of cocaine from the Texas border to a northern city.

MCALLEN, Texas – Mexican cops in the border city of Matamoros arrested a Gulf cartel member in charge of shipping drugs to New York and Ohio who happens to be a four-time deported alien with a lengthy criminal history in the United States.

Federal agents arrested 17 suspected members of a Mexican Zetas cartel cell operating in Texas. Members of the cell moved massive quantities of of drugs from the Texas border city of Laredo to Dallas, Texas. The U.S. federal agencies involved in the task force ranged from the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Internal Revenue Service, all the way to the U.S. Border Patrol. Eleven accused members of the group were arrested in Laredo and two were arrested near Dallas. Four others were already in custody on other charges, information released to Breitbart Texas by the U.S. Attorney’s Office revealed.

Texas border sheriff’s deputies seized close to 700 pounds of marijuana hidden in an underground bunker.

U.S. Border Patrol agents tracked five suspected illegal alien smugglers seen carrying large packages on their backs while crossing the International Boundary from Mexico into the United States near Calexico, California on Tuesday night.

Federal agents and local law enforcement along the Texas border arrested a major suspected drug trafficker. The accused kingpin had managed to stay away from convictions for almost a decade — despite years of serious accusations against him.

MCALLEN, Texas – A man from the Mexican border city of Matamoros has been accused of trying to smuggle 100 gallons of liquid methamphetamine hidden inside the gas tank of a truck.

The heroin smuggling case against three former Maricopa County Deputy Sheriff’s Deputies is coming unraveled after prosecutors admitted a wiretap used in the case was never properly applied for.