Mexico Trucker Online

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 checkpoint on U.S. 59 near Freer, she said in court.

Sepulveda identified Miller in court as the driver of the truck.

An agent sent the truck to secondary inspection, but the driver drove off on the highway, Sepulveda said.

She followed the truck in her Border Patrol vehicle and pulled it over six miles away, she testified.

The driver agreed to return to the checkpoint, but after driving back for about a mile, he turned around and headed back away from the checkpoint, she said.

Sepulveda told jurors that while the driver was turning around on the highway, he almost hit her vehicle.

Agents found the tractor nearby, she said.

Its driver escaped into the brush.

Inside, Sepulveda said, she found bundles of marijuana.

Miller and Ferrell Damon Scott, both from the Dallas area, are being tried on charges of conspiracy to possess more than 1,000 kilograms of marijuana with the intent to distribute and possession of more than 100 kilograms of marijuana with the intent to distribute.

Scott faces two additional possession charges.

The men were arrested this year in Dallas.

Federal prosecutors allege that Scott lived in Laredo and orchestrated the shipment of pot from here to the Dallas area.

Miller was one of his drivers, they claim.

Prosecutors are alleging that Scott had hired men to ship three loads of marijuana that Border Patrol agents seized in 2007.

Both men have maintained their innocence, their lawyers have said.

Jurors on Wednesday heard testimony from Johnny Brown, who told them Scott hired him in the Dallas suburb of Lancaster to drive marijuana from Laredo to North Texas.

Brown was arrested in February 2007 and has since pleaded guilty to a marijuana possession charge.

Just more proof that it is not Mexican trucks nor cross border participants smuggling the drugs, but in most cases, US Amerikan white bread citizens trying to make a buck!