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A push by U.S. and Mexican authorities to combat the high-powered arms trafficking that fuels Mexico’s bloody drug war is putting increasing numbers of suspected drug smugglers in court.
Prosecutions for federal gun law violations are on pace to reach a 20-year high in South Texas as federal agents work to stem the “iron river of [...]

Nearly one ton of marijuana was discovered by the Army in a village near Ciudad Miguel Aleman, hidden in a vehicle and in a drainage ditch nearby.
Tuesday, the 75th Infantry Battalion was on patrol between Los Angeles and Miguel Aleman, .
They found a 1991 Black Ford Grand Marquis with Minnesota plates, containing 31 [...]

Phoenix’s branch of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said on Friday it took 18 automatic weapons bound for Mexico off Arizona streets before they got south of the border.
The guns were heading to drug cartels in Mexico from the U.S., said William Newell, special agent in charge, ATF, Phoenix field division.
Newell said [...]

Ninety-five percent chance guns came from U.S.
REYNOSA, Mexico - Federal police in Reynosa made a bust at home and now several hundred pounds of drugs and lots of guns are in their custody.
An anonymous tip led authorities to the house. No one was home at the time of the raid. But police did find 10 [...]

EL PASO - Osvaldo Aldrete Davila was sentenced to 9 1/2 years Wednesday for smuggling more than 100 kilos of marijuana in 2005.
U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone sentenced Aldrete-Davila of Ciudad Juarez as a result of his guilty plea in the 2005 incident
Jusdge Cardone ironically, was the Judge who presided at the trial of Ignacio [...]

McALLEN -(The Monitor) The former owner of an Edinburg. Texas trucking business was sentenced to 30 years in prison Monday for his role in a drug smuggling and money laundering ring.
A federal jury in Houston found Ricardo Garcia Heredia, 44, of McAllen, guilty in May of multiple counts of conspiracy and drug possession.
Prosecutors allege Garcia [...]

A U.S. Border Patrol agent told jurors Friday in federal court that she had been involved in the pursuit of a tractor she said was driven by Artis Ryan Miller.The pursuit started when Agent Judy Sepulveda’s canine unit alerted her to the presence of marijuana in a tractor Aug. 2, 2007, at the Border Patrol [...]

HUATULCO, Mexico — Mexico’s navy seized a homemade submarine carrying a drug shipment off the Pacific Coast on Wednesday and arrested its four-man crew.
Similar vessels carrying cocaine have been discovered off Colombia and Central America, but navy spokesman Capt. Benjamin Mar said the seizure is a first for Mexico.
The 30-foot (10-meter) makeshift submarine was detected [...]

Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents made several drug seizures in the past few days, netting an estimated $5.6 million worth of illegal drugs.The latest case occurred Monday morning when agents working at the Interstate 35 checkpoint inspected the driver of a 2000 Chevrolet Monte Carlo after a service canine alerted toward the car.
Agents found 24 [...]

U.S. Sen. John Cornyn announced new federal legislation Friday that aims to crack down on commercial truck drivers who smuggle illegal immigrants.The legislation, dubbed the Putting the Brakes on Human Smuggling Act, imposes tougher penalties against commercial truck drivers convicted of smuggling humans, said Cornyn, who was flanked at the Laredo North checkpoint by Carlos [...]

Amid fierce U.S. government protests over the release of a suspect in the killing of a U.S. Border Patrol agent, Mexico yesterday pledged close cooperation with U.S. authorities. But Mexican officials said they have yet to receive a request for his extradition or arrest.
Jesús Navarro Montes, who is suspected of drug smuggling, is accused by [...]

AUSTIN — Truckers who smuggle drugs or people into the U.S. are now risking not only prison time but also the loss of their commercial driver’s licenses as Texas uses a longstanding law in a new border crime crackdown.
“Up until today, when those lawbreakers had their trucks apprehended, they were convicted in federal court, they [...]

McALLEN, Texas – A U.S. Border Patrol agent was charged with conspiracy to distribute cocaine for allegedly helping two Mexican men smuggle 11 bricks of cocaine into the United States.
Reynaldo Zuniga, a 34-year-old Border Patrol agent from Harlingen, was paid to pick up one of the men along the Rio Grande and then drive him [...]

Authorities took a Smithway Motor Express driver into custody after several undocumented immigrants were found inside his 18-wheeler parked at a South Side convenience store.
Undercover drug officers stumbled upon the 18-wheeler during a drug investigation Tuesday night, when they pulled over a man during drug bust at a Shell Gas Station in the 5800 [...]