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
Support for the US trucker arrested for smuggling military grade ammunition into Mexico on April 19 is growing and for all the wrong reasons. Jabin Bogan, a driver for Demco Express in Arlington Texas, supposedly made a “wrong turn” and found himself in Mexico where the 9 pallets of military grade ammo was discovered among
Mexico Trucker Online has learned where the locations and route of Jabin Bogan’s deliveries in El Paso where he claims to have accidentally and inadvertently entered Mexico with 9 pallets of prohibited military grade ammo. Bogan was immediately arrested by Mexican authorities for importing illegal munitions into Mexico and yesterday was formally charged. Bogan’s first
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
U.S. embassy officials in Mexico say the Mexican government is charging the Jabin Bogen Akeem, the trucker arrested last week with 268,000 bullets in Ciudad Juarez with smuggling military ammunition. This is the more severe of the two possible charges available to prosecutors. An embassy statement Thursday says 27-year-old trucker is confined to the Villa
The story of the American trucker, Jabin Akeem Bogan, or Jabin Bogan Akeem, depending on who’s reporting it, is beginning to have the hard questions asked that goes beyond the “human interest” side of the story. Now, the question is, “Will he be charged” and if so, what will the charges be? The El Paso
A story published this morning in the El Paso Times reinforces many of the doubts raised about the US trucker, Jabin Akeem Bogan, who was arrested last week in Cd. Juarez with a load of prohibited ammunition in his trailer. René Jáquez, former assistant country attaché in Juárez with the ATF, said that U.S. customs
Was it a comedy of errors, a deliberate smuggling attempt gone bad or simply a know nothing rookie with his head up his ass who was caught with 268,000 rounds of ammunition in his semi after crossing into Juárez by Mexican customs agents at the Bridge of the Americas on Tuesday afternoon. Bogan Jabin Akeem,
OOIDA finally got something at least “half-right” concerning the Mexican Cross Border Pilot Program when they said in a recent comment; FMCSA intends to give special treatment to Mexico–domiciled motor carriers under the proposed pilot program, not ‘national treatment’ as required under NAFTA. The Texas Department of Public Safety is set to put into service
Hey Texas! What do you think about the latest waste of your hard earned taxpayer dollars? The $4.14 million dollar boondoggle! Gov. “Slick” Rick Perry’s Texas Highway Patrol just received their first-of-six armored “Shallow Water Interceptor” gunboat. Why does the Texas Highway Patrol all of a sudden need a fleet of armed-to-the-gills gunboats? For the
We wrote last week about the Public Transit delegation in the border city of Nuevo Laredo had began testing all city transit and taxi drivers for drug and alcohol use and re-certifying those who passed. The first phase of the testing is complete, and while not surprising to us, debunks more of the propaganda being passed around
NUEVO LAREDO .- Eduardo Cuellar Bridges, deputy representative of public transport in Nuevo Laredo, said that there have been 300 drug tests administered under a new anti doping regimen and so far only one operator tested positive out of a total of 6,900 public service operators who drive city buses, taxis and other public conveyances.
The U.S. Department of Justice National Drug Intelligence Center has released its National Drug Threat Assessment 2011 and to the consternation of many who have made the claim that Mexican trucks are the main conveyances with which drugs enter the US, pretty much debunks this idea. And as usual, we can count on Charlie Morasch, a
BUFFALO, N.Y. — A Canadian truck driver who pleaded guilty Wednesday to smuggling cocaine in the floorboards of his truck was part of an operation that sent more than 1½ tons of drugs across the U.S. border into Canada since 2009, federal authorities said. Ravinder Arora, 30, of Brampton, Ontario, pleaded guilty in federal court
The rest of the story emerges about the El Paso times story we wrote about earlier this week, concerning the thousands of violations reported by Texas DPS inspectors at two commercial crossings in El Paso Texas. While we have some concerns about the number of violations reported over 4.5 years, the Times story claims 1.2
Today’s El Paso Times has a piece out titled “1 Million Truck Violations Cited at Border Crossing”by Diana Washington who has in the past been a reputable reporter on things concerning the US/Mexico border in El Paso. But the story is misleading and just the sort of thing we expect OOIDA to jump on first
EL PASO — A border security program to X-ray every train rolling into the US has prompted as much as $400 million in fines against US railroads, which are held responsible for bales of marijuana, bundles of cocaine, and anything else criminals cram into the boxcars as they roll through Mexico. Union Pacific, the largest
Almost 3,000 members of the Army, Marines and Federal Police reinforced military operations in the Tamaulipas municipalities of Nuevo Guerrero, Ciudad Mier, Miguel Aleman, Camargo and Diaz Ordaz in an attempt to stem the spiraling violence and the growing exodus of residents as rival bands of heavily armed criminals contest that area of the Texas
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
WASHINGTON — Two or three times a week, truck driver Jesus Serrano hauls loads of Mexican-grown produce from warehouses in Nogales, Ariz. , which is just across the U.S.- Mexico border, to distribution centers in Los Angeles . Serrano plans to stop making the trip now that Arizona Republican Gov. Jan Brewer has signed a
In a politically sensitive operation at the Arizona- Mexico border, U.S. Border Patrol agents and Mexican federal police officers are training together, sharing intelligence and coordinating patrols for the first time. The goal of the historic partnership: a systematic joint attack on northbound flows of drugs and migrants, and southbound shipments of guns and cash.
