Was it “coincidence” Border Patrol agents “overlooked” Bradley’s trailer? Investigators with Homeland Security are looking into how James Bradley was able to bring his trailer full of as many as 200 immigrants through a Border Patrol-run traffic checkpoint on Interstate 35 north of Laredo. Perhaps we can offer them a direction to point their investigation.
Here we go again. Another U.S. Marine jailed in Mexico for crossing the border with weapons in his vehicle. His excuse? In an interview Sunday with the San Diego Union Tribune, Marine Reserve Sergeant Andrew Tahmooressi, 25, an active Marine reservist who served two combat tours in Afghanistan said he was going to meet friends in the
Southern peckerwoods rejoice! One of your own has apparently been elected President of the National Rifle Association to replace outgoing President David Keene. According to news reports; Alabama attorney Jim Porter will be the new president of the National Rifle Association, CNN confirmed Wednesday. Porter is set to take over for outgoing president David Keene on Monday,
At least 10 members of the band La Reyna de Nuevo Leon were killed and 5 others injured this morning when the van the group was traveling in sideswiped a southbound semi, crossed the median and collided head on with a northbound semi truck. The band was returning to Monterrey after playing a gig Saturday
What the hell’s the matter with some people? Today is Easter Sunday and it also happens to be the 86th anniversary of the birth of legendary labor leader Cesar Chavez, founder of the United Farm Workers Union. Search giant Google chose to honor Chavez with one of their Google Doodles – the temporary homepage logos
All hell broke loose Sunday night in the border town of Reynosa, across the river from McAllen Texas as various factions of the Gulf Cartel took to the streets to settle internal conflicts within the group. For about 3 hours, gunfire, grenade explosions and convoys of armed combatants were seen and reported through social media
Jabin Akeem “Wrong Way” Bogan was released from Villa Aldama Federal Prison in Mexico Thursday night after payment of bonds and fines totaling $2000.00 US for his September 12 conviction for possessing prohibited ammunition in Mexico. Bogan has been held in the maximum security federal prison in the state of Veracruz since his arrest in
Jabin Akeem Bogan, the US trucker from Dallas who was arrested in April and charged with smuggling prohibited ammunition into Mexico, was formally sentenced today to 3 years in prison and a fine of $2,680.00 pesos or about $205.00 US. On October 30, Judge Victor Manuel Jimenez Flores Third Unitary (Appeals) Court upheld the sentence
Two US Embassy employees were shot at and wounded by Mexican police on Friday after they were caught up in a police chase on the outskirts of the capital, a spokesman for Mexico’s Navy said. Police fired on the vehicle in which the embassy employees, Jesse Hoods Garner and Stan Dove Boss were traveling, which
Friday was a quiet day in Nuevo Laredo, the same as any weekday. People going about their business not expecting that at the 11:00 hour, a car bomb would explode in front of Nuevo Laredo’s city hall, injuring 7 and leaving the street looking like a scene from the Iraq war. Mexican media are not
Since US trucker Jabin Akeem Bogan was arrested two month ago in Cd Juarez, charged with having 268,000 rounds of NATO grade ammunition in his possession, all we’ve been hearing from the handful of his supporters and from his family is about what a good boy he is, what a good christian father he is
Two months after Demco Express driver was arrested and charged with smuggling prohibited ammunition into Mexico, we’re finally receiving information on the circumstances surrounding the arrest and the current state of the case against Jabin Akeem Bogan, 27 of the Oak Cliff section of Dallas. We’ve learned from the customs agents who first encountered Bogan
Her name is America Zubia Saenz and she is the Mexican customs agent who had first contact with Jabin Akeem Bogan, the driver for Demco Express who was arrested on April 17 with 268,000 rounds of NATO grade ammunition in his trailer. Agent Saenz is of the “new breed” of Mexican Customs agents. College educated
President Obama joined eight other countries on Monday in welcoming Mexico into talks aimed at reaching an Asia Pacific free trade agreement, otherwise known as the Trans Pacific Partnership. We are delighted to invite Mexico, our neighbor and second-largest export market, to join the (Trans-Pacific Partnership) TPP negotiations,” U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk said in
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) ordered Texas-based Denny Mekenye, doing business as Demco Express and/or Demco Trans, Inc. to immediately cease all transportation services based on serious safety violations that posed an imminent hazard to public safety. FMCSA shut down Demco following an extensive review of the company’s operations
Supporters of US trucker Jabin Bogan, imprisoned in Mexico and charged with illegally introducing prohibited ammunition into the country continue to ignore the facts surrounding the case while spinning a story they hope will hit home in the court of public opinion. Most of us who are real professional truckers, cannot comprehend how Bogan, a
Jabin Bogan, the driver for DEMCO Transportation, who was caught with 268,000 rounds of military grade ammunition when he “inadvertantly” crossed into Mexico from El Paso, has been formally charged with violating Mexico’s uber strict gun laws. Bogan was charged yesterday with importing ammunition exclusive to the Mexican military, a crime that could put him
The outcome of the case against the US trucker charged with smuggling 268,000 rounds of ammunition into Mexico last week could be further complicated by the conclusions of an investigationreleased by the US Department of Justice on Friday. On June 7, 2010, Border Patrol Agent Jesus Mara Jr, according to witnesses and video, without provocation
An editorial caught me eye this morning, on this day that the first Mexican carrier to be granted authority to operate beyond the commercial zone enters the U.S. It reads in part; When a nation signs and ratifies a treaty with another, it is in effect a contract between those countries. And when one country
What can only be described as a resounding success in our efforts to see the United States come into compliance with it obligations under the NAFTA accords, the remaining 50 percent of the $2.4 billion regulatory tariffs imposed by Mexico in 2009 will now be lifted. The tariff’s, imposed after the Obama Administration signed a
On August 19, 2011, the Office of the Inspector General for the United States Department of Transportation, a non-partisan independent office tasked with oversight of the various agencies, released it’s long awaited audit on the Mexican cross border program, preparing to get underway. This audit was required by Section 6901 of the U.S. Troop Readiness,
During the scheduled meeting of the Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee in Alexandria Virginia yesterday, those were the words of Carlos Sesma, an attorney representing Mexican trucking interests before the committee. And Sesma was correct. The MCSAC is a subcommittee of the FMCSA charged with overseeing the Mexican Cross Border Pilot Program. OOIDA Executive Vice-President Todd
