Aug 06

Aftermath of Hurricane Alex and the floods of 2010

By PMC Border News, For your information, Headlines, The Border View Comments
Canacar and the Federal Transport Police estimated more than 11,000 trucks were stranded between Monterrey and Nuevo Laredo

It’s been a helluva month here on the border in the aftermath of Hurricane Alex and the several tropical storms that followed.

At one point, all roads between Nuevo Laredo and Monterrey were closed for several days resulting in a backup of an estimated 11-22,000 trucks.

Parts of Reynosa are still underwater as the Rio Grande is slow in returning to normal there.

Laredo Texas looks as if a tsunami hit the banks of the Rio Grande where at one point, the water was lapping at the side beams of the international bridge, 60 feet above the river.

Freight in the area is still slow in getting back across the border as the maquillas in Monterrey and elsewhere are slowly recovering and gearing back up to full capacity.

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Jun 28

Deputies seize $45 million in drugs in Rancho Cucamonga California

By PMC Headlines, Smugglers Brew View Comments

One of the largest seizures of drugs in US history was made in San Bernardino County by Deputies with Drug Interdiction Task Force

Sheriff’s deputies found a tractor trailer packed with $45 million in drugs during a routine traffic stop in Rancho Cucamonga on Wednesday.

The bust was one of the largest ever made in San Bernardino County, and included thousands of pounds of marijuana, cocaine and methamphetamine, San Bernardino County sheriff’s officials said.

The sheriff’s Hi-Intensity Criminal Interdiction Unit stopped a big rig on the eastbound 10 Freeway for a traffic violation at 11 a.m.

The driver, Fernando Luevano, 32, of Los Angeles, did not have proper paperwork for his load. He gave deputies permission to search the trailer.

When deputies opened it, they smelled what they described as an “overwhelming odor of marijuana,” officials said in a press release.

The trailer was filled to capacity with large cardboard containers on pallets, holding thousands of heat-sealed packages of drugs.

Deputies seized about 38,000 pounds of marijuana, 2,700 pounds of cocaine and 67 pounds of methamphetamine.

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Jun 18

American trucker busted with 48 illegals in trailer

By PMC Headlines, ICE & CBP, Smugglers Brew View Comments

Inland BP check

Like the majority of truckers caught hauling contraband, American trucker Wayne West of Balch Springs Texas was doing it to make a few extra bucks

LAREDO — Border agents found 48 illegal immigrants in the back of a tractor trailer during a routine stop at a checkpoint in south Texas.
The trailer was refrigerated, according to the driver’s attorney, and all of those in the trailer declined medical treatment, immigration officials said.

The driver, Wayne West of Balch Springs, was charged with transporting illegal immigrants, according to court documents filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Laredo. He’s scheduled for a detention hearing on Friday.

His attorney, Russell Jordan, said he couldn’t say much about the case because the investigation is still being done, but he noted that the trailer was refrigerated and no one was injured.

An inspection dog alerted border agents to the presence of people or drugs in the trailer during the stop, authorities said.
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May 21

“Cocaine Cowboys” and White Supremacists in shootout on I-40

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West Memphis Police Officer Bill Evans (R) and Officer Brandon Paudert (L), son of West Memphis Police Chief Bob Paudert, killed yesterday after making a stop on a van belonging to a white supremacist organization from Ohio

West Memphis Police Officer Bill Evans (R) and Officer Brandon Paudert (L), son of West Memphis Police Chief Bob Paudert, killed yesterday after making a stop on a van belonging to a white supremacist organization from Ohio

More reason why we should reestablish the assault weapon ban that President George Bush allowed to expire is evident by todays murder of two West Memphis Drug Interdiction officers (Cocaine Cowboys), West Memphis Police Officer Bill Evans and Officer Brandon Paudert, son of West Memphis Police Chief Bob Paudert.

Both were killed when they pulled over a white mini van with Ohio plates at MM 275 outside of West Memphis Arkansas. Two suspects emerged and began firing killing the two officers.

The van and suspects were chased to the Wal Mart parking lot where Crittenden County Sheriff Dick Busby, and W.A. Wren, chief of enforcement for the Sheriff’s office confront the suspects, both are shot. Busby in the shoulder, Wren 5 times in the gut. The suspects are killed.

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Dec 27

Mexico to be represented in Rose Parade – First time in 40 years

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This artists depiction of Mexicos entry into the 2010 Tournament of Roses Parade coincides with the 200th birthday of the Republic of Mexico and the 100th anniversary of the Revolution. This is Mexico's first entry in more than 40 years.In honor of the 200th anniversary of Mexican independence and 100 years since the country’s revolution, the Mexican government is sponsoring its first Rose Parade float in over 40 years.

“With this float we’re going to tell 40 million people watching on TV that it’s Mexico’s birthday,” said Juan Marcos Gutierrez-Gonzalez, the Mexican consul general in Los Angeles. “There’s no better way to do it.”
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Oct 27

BREAKING NEWS: FMCSA apparently to reconsider HOS rule from scratch

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WASHINGTON — The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, in response to a lawsuit concerning the Hours of Service regulations, has in essence agreed to review the 2008 HOS rule from scratch and issue a new Final Rule in less than two years.

In light of the decision to reconsider the rule, the petitioners who brought the suit, Public Citizen, et al., and FMCSA have entered into a settlement agreement that will put the case in abeyance pending the issuance of a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, which the FMCSA must submit to the Office of Management and Budget for review within nine months of the settlement (Oct. 26, 2009) and the publishing of a Final Rule within 21 months of the date of settlement.
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