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Thursday, September 7, 2017

US / CBP Has Busy Week Busting Millions Worth of Drugs at Border Crossings

Posted by Yaqui for Borderland Beat from USCBP

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US Customs and Border Patrol News Releases
Sept 8, 2017


CBP Field Operations Seizes Nearly $4 Million in Meth in a Commercial Trailer at the Pharr, Texas International Bridge:


The seizure occurred on Sept. 5, when CBP officers assigned to the Pharr International Bridge cargo facility encountered a white 2008 Freightliner tractor trailer. After the conveyance was referred for a secondary inspection, CBP officers utilized a non-intrusive imagining (NII) system along with the help of a canine team to locate the narcotics. CBP officers extracted 36 packages containing 199.61 pounds of alleged methamphetamine concealed within the trailer.

CBP OFO seized the drugs, along with the conveyance ( the tractor trailer ). The case remains under investigation by Homeland Security Investigations special agents.




US Customs and Border Patrol using Hi- Tech Imaging Devices (NII)


USCBP Seizes Cocaine Worth More Than $484K at the Laredo Port of Entry:
Release Date: September 7, 2017

LAREDO, Texas – U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers seized a significant amount of alleged cocaine with a value of more than $484,000 during an enforcement action.

Packages containing 63 pounds of cocaine were seized by CBP officers at the Laredo, Texas Port of Entry; , “I congratulate the officers in carrying out the CBP mission and protecting the public from illegal narcotics,” said Port Director Gregory Alvarez, Laredo Port of Entry. “This significant seizure was possible because of the continued vigilance and alertness our CBP officers’ put forth on a daily basis.”




Packages containing nearly 200 pounds of methamphetamine seized by CBP officers at Pharr International Bridge import lotCBP officers seized the vehicle and narcotics. The driver was arrested and the case was turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement-Homeland Security Investigations (ICE-HSI) special agents for further investigation.


Imperial Valley CBP Officers Intercepted 53 Lbs. of Cocaine and 49 Lbs. of Meth over the Labor Day Weekend: Release Date: September 6, 2017

IMPERIAL VALLEY, Calif. - U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Imperial Valley ports of entry intercepted two significant narcotic smuggling attempts, 53 pounds of cocaine at the Andrade port of entry, and 49 pounds of methamphetamine at the Calexico West port of entry, over the Labor Day weekend.

The first seizure occurred on Saturday, Sept. 2, at about 3:28 p.m. at the Andrade port of entry when a CBP canine team encountered a 66-year old man driving a white Ford F-150 pick-up truck waiting in line for inspection. The detector dog screened the truck and alerted to the spare tire.  The driver and truck were referred for further examination.

CBP officers searched the truck and extracted 20 wrapped packages hidden inside the spare tire.  The packages field-tested positive for cocaine and weighed a total of 53 pounds, with a street value of approximately $672,000.

The second seizure occurred on Monday, September 4, at about 9:30 p.m., at the Calexico downtown port of entry when a CBP officer encountered a 32-year old male Mexican citizen driving a Gray Nissan Versa.  The officer referred the driver and vehicle for a more in-depth examination.

During the inspection, officers utilized the port’s imaging system and a canine team, and discovered 17 wrapped packages concealed inside a non-factory compartment within the vehicle’s floor. The packages field-tested positive for methamphetamine. The total weight of the narcotic was 49 pounds with a street value of approximately $69,000.

Both drivers, residents of California, were arrested for the alleged narcotic smuggling attempts and were turned over to the custody of HSI agents for further processing. CBP seized the narcotics and vehicles.


The vehicle driven by a 43-year-old male Mexican citizen from Guadalajara, Mexico for a secondary examination. Upon a canine and non-intrusive inspection of the vehicle by CBP officers, a total of 24 packages hidden within the vehicle allegedly containing a total of 63 pounds of cocaine, were discovered. The cocaine has an estimated street value of $484,500.

This Seizure was 63 Pounds of Cocaine
US/CBP Officers Seize $3.7 Million in Drugs Over Labor Day Weekend and Apprehend 19 Fugitives
Release Date: September 6, 2017

SAN DIEGO – U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers working at the ports of entry in the San Diego and Imperial Valley Counties over the weekend intercepted over 950 pounds of narcotics, valued over $3.7 million, and intercepted 19 wanted fugitives. ( No photos available from USCBP)

From Friday, Sept. 1 through Monday, Sept. 4, CBP officers intercepted 296 pounds of marijuana, 499 pounds of methamphetamine, 98 pounds of cocaine and 62 pounds of heroin with a street value of over $3.7 million.

CBP officers discovered the narcotics in vehicles in various locations throughout the conveyances such as the floor, doors, fuel tanks, speaker boxes, spare tires and quarter panels among others.

A significant interception occurred on Sept. 3, at about 7:30 p.m. when a 33-year-old female U.S. citizen entered through San Ysidro port of entry driving a 2006 Honda Civic.

A CBP canine team was conducting inspections when the dog alerted to the vehicle’s quarter panel. CBP officers conducting an intensive inspection discovered 41 packages concealed inside both the driver and passenger quarter panels. CBP officers seized a total of 22 packages of heroin, weighing 47 pounds and 19 packages of methamphetamine, weighing 46 pounds from both quarter panels. The combined total of narcotics has an estimated street value of $612,000. CBP seized all vehicles and narcotics.

The 19 fugitives arrested by CBP were wanted on outstanding felony warrants at the various border crossings. The warrants were for larceny, burglary, assault, stolen vehicles and dangerous drugs among others. These apprehensions and seizures are in addition to those in the Imperial Valley over the labor day weekend.


42 comments:

  1. That is why everything south of Laredo is a shitty plaza b/c there isn't the tractor trailer or even car volume going over the border. Yes they have uninhabited land that mules can backpack work over, but kind of hard to move metric tons by the day using mules. lol

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  2. Low to mid level punks got stopped in their tracks from getting rich, meanwhile others keep adding to the safe houses caletas.

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    1. May be right on your perspective. However, note that opportunists like such are what made this epidemic. Fortunes have been made from drug trafficking.
      And I see no end in sight for the high demand of consumption anywhere in the world.

      E42

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    2. 7:46 Low level , high level they are all low life punks .

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    3. 5:38 You do what you need to do to progress and how you think you will make it. Some sell drugs others decide to study hard and try and make it. Others do worse others better.

      But some commit genocide, destroy civilizations, enslave people and take a whole land mass for themselves and call the people they did that to illegal. Than they decide that's not enough so they decide they need to try and control the world. So they have bases all around the world to keep those people in check and call it supporting our allies.

      Take a guess.

      How much blood did that gallon of gasoline take to get into your gas tank? How much blood did it take for you to get that nice house you have? You didn't do anything but someone had to have done something to make it possible. It could have happened years ago or just yesterday.

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    4. 5:38 you make points, it is still happening today and will still happen tomarra, but i see people start talking, good job! tremendously good...
      atentamente: Insane clown prezident

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  3. They only catch 10%
    And those "fugitives" are low level crininals often failures to appear charges
    Just federales gloryfing their stinking job.

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    1. 10% 20% we will take it . All we can get . It part of the glue that hold society together , rule of law . I think in the next few years we will see more laws being enforced properly . Hope so or we will break down and become another Mexico .

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  4. Most probably the drugs belonged to the CJNG I been saying this for awhile the CJNG has been operating in Nuevo Laredo for a quite good time.They just move there drugs thru there since the CJNG has a presence in Monterrey its easy for them to move there drugs thru Nuevo Laredo also the CDN is weaker than ever its easier for the Jaliscos to move there product thru that border.

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    1. Nope. Surprisingly los zetas still dominate NL it is what reynosa is to los metros. 98 carrizales and his people passed cdg sur dope thru there, Zetas tried but couldnt get rid of him cuz he fucked up em every time and still do even tho 98 was betrayed by wero cleofas later on. Texas is z & cdg bread and butter but golfos control southern TX big cities like houston & san anto

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    2. CJNG has ZERO presence is in monterrey and even less in the Laredo border. And CDG are the ones moving a lot of dope (from high quality Asian Heroin to meth and cocaine) not jaliscas.

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    3. zetas messed it all up for the cdg if it wasn't for them cdg would probably be controlling coahuila, nuevo leon, tamps by now of course that could had been possible if they didn't had all the idiots they got right now.

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    4. @3:22 You say it like if it would be "impossible" for the CJNG move drugs thru that border lol You know how many vehicles pass thru Nuevo Laredo-Laredo every day? It's impossible to keep track of every vehicle that crosses the border. I bet even CDG and CDS cross there drugs thru Nuevo Laredo too. You make it like if it's a big problem to cross drugs thru Nuevo Laredo and its not lol Even people that move drugs by there own "chapulines" move drugs thru Laredo without paying the CDN piso.

      Also Monterrey is a non dominant plaza for any cartel you have Z/CDG,Beltranes,CDS,CDN, Michoacanos,chapulines (people that sell drugs by there own) I bet even Jalisco's are in Monterrey last time I heard about the CJNG having presence in Monterrey was in San Nicolas.

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    5. 12:31 I agree. Everyday independents and every cartel moves dope across bridge 2 (cars and pedestrians) and the Columbia Bridge in commercial trucks. No government or cartel can possibly manage the immense traffic.

      Over 11 million persons, cars and trucks crossed in 2015.
      Laredo # 1 Inland port on US Mexico Border.
      Laredo # 1 Railroad interchange on US / Mexico Border.
      Crossing grows 17.8% from 2014-2015.
      Over 12,000 commercial trucks and 2,000 railcars pass each year

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  5. 10:04 with all due respect, "Las Jaliskas"
    y al que no le guste, que se ponga

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  6. Anything that passes through the valley in Texas is mostly from zetas or cdg and the rest in New Mexico to California are from the other cartels.

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  7. Whats up with that earthquake

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    1. 1:37 mostly puras pinchis casas baratas y mal hechotas, nothing to see...

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  8. All the work, all the busts, all the prison terms make not as much as a dent in the supply of drugs. All it does is to further the careers and budgets of those involved in the WoD.

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    1. You are correct !
      However, little is better than nothing.

      E42

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    2. Wrong! No waste is better than a little waste and here we are in the midst of 30 years of a huge waste! The WoD is a waste of money, peoples life and the sanity of our society.

      Make no mistake: after 30 years of WoD drugs are cheaper, stronger and more plentifull than ever.

      Maybe/probably this is the case BECAUSE the WoD!

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    3. 11:39 nothing goes to waste, everything undergoes transformation, it is one of the laws or sompim',
      fpr the real beneficiaries of drug trafficking, they make money from drug trafficking, from money laundering and from government subsidies to corporate welfare queens to fight the "war on drugs" that make them and their supporters richer by the billions of dollars every year...

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  9. I bet seizures like this are exaggerated by customs. Where do the come up with these numbers. Shit that would take most drugs of the streets. Lies. If drugs stop flowing that would put a lot of people out of jobs in the USA.

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    1. You, my friend are out of touch. This is a drop in the bucket.
      Which JOBS are you referring to ? Street dealers ?
      I am curious.

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    2. Pointless to rebut Yaqui!
      Best to let him sort truth from fiction!

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    3. @7::37, I thought it stated 9 loads make it for every one stopped. Also it looks like the loads are 5:1 meth:cocaine, from the over weekend totals - so whoever is making it is doing so with every gm of chemicals they can, then sharing product with their crews & sending lots to the gringos.

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    4. They probably only get a fraction of the drugs. All this busts and the prices dont get affected.

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    5. @4:03 is your last name 'Clue'? And your first name 'No'?

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    6. I'm talking law enforcement and justice department.

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    7. You must not live by the border. Where drug busts like these are seen often

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    8. 4:03 I agree I know what you mean

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  10. Yaqui... The bankers the money lenders and changers, real estate, transport, luxury goods, jewellery, cars, factories, finance, lawyers, prisons, police ALL these funded or augmented by drug $$$ don't be misled, for instance, you think prisons aren't funded by drug money? Think again. Economies worldwide would suffer without drugs to prop them. Then you have military complex and black budgets. And this is off the top of my head... A full scale look would be interesting, how much DOES narco cash prop up our system?

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    1. I agree. The DEA and other agencies need drugs to stay in business. No drugs would eliminate government, state and city jobs. The domino effect. Plain and simple. Drugs will always be around whether we like it or not. Not to mention economies.

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    2. Bankers with there suits and ties r the money laundering basterds. Without them the cartels would br broke

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    3. I totally agree. I just though the first sentence of the comment was incongruous with the second.
      The world is awash in drug / organized crime money.

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    4. Its well noted that Miami was built on drug proceeds. During the height of the cocaine boom.Can only imagine how many other cities and development ventures where funded by such?
      Where banks knowingly engaged in illicit practices for gains. Yet, to this day the continuous unsavory practices by banks receive little to none of punitive measures. That's the power of money and political alliances.

      E42

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    5. Well they still are building skyscrapers from drug proceeds, those bunch of lazy cubans don't like working hard for their money they rather get it the easy way, reason why florida is number one when it comes to fraud, they got it easier now because they got all those planes that can travel to cuba where drug trafickers from venezuela have connections with the castros shenanigans.

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  11. Still think cbp is number 1 for taking drugs down compared to dea

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  12. If u r sent prison u should be allow the alcohol and drugs u want. Help pass the time and maybe we get lucky and they o.d.

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  13. Statistics show that all, and I mean all law enforcement agencies combined only busy 5-10% of all the drugs that come into the U.S. An article posted here I believe (BB) of an interview of a high ranking smuggler have them more credit than that. He said that he would loose an average of 20% of his product just trying to get it into the U.S. He also stated that he would account for that lost and still make a profit.
    Which ever the truth is. The numbers that are reported are just a drop in the bucket. WoD is a failure, but what would you do. Some want the government to fix our problems and others don't. Usually the ones that want that are the ones that vote. So you get a WoD. Obama Care, free college, low has prices, free abortions, free cell phone, ect.

    El Jarochito

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    1. Sounds like you are opposed to all things free? While the rich get richer and the middle class is dwindling. Where's the justice in a fair share for those who struggle on a daily basis. Unfortunately, inflation continues to rise. Minimum wages are a means for daily survival. Companies and corporations are relocating to other countries to make greater profits.
      A fair shake to those citizens is only warranted!

      E42

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    2. Don't get what political views you undertake @11:46.
      But I am a very Discontent with majority of policies undertaken from government officials.
      Health care is a guaranteed in other countries.
      While here in the US it's a business. Where insurance and pharmaceutical companies make fortunes. Where senior citizens continue to work due to premiums rates that are not covered. Where is the justice in that?
      Where the retirement age is rising to make government more money not effective. A continuous gouging of tax payers dollars from those who are obligated to work. Where is justice in that?
      We live in a non perfect world where money is influenced by political elements.

      E42

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