Oct 17

Canadian Truck Driver Arrested with $3 Million in Cocaine at Pacific Highway Crossing

By PMC ICE & CBP, Smugglers Brew View Comments

US-Canada border crossing at Blaine Washington

US-Canada border crossing at Blaine Washington

Blaine, Wash. – U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers arrested a 43-year-old Surrey, British Columbia, man on October 10 for allegedly attempting to export 192 pounds of cocaine, worth more than $3 million.

Sukhvinder Shoker, a Canadian citizen,(one of those that wears a diaper on his head) was originally en route to Canada driving a commercial shipment of household goods when he was encountered by CBP officers of the Blaine Anti-Terrorism Contraband Enforcement Team working in concert with agents of the Border Enforcement Security Task Force at the Pacific Highway port of entry. A narcotic detector dog named “Mac” was used to search the truck and trailer and gave a positive alert to the presence of a narcotic odor.

During a detailed inspection of the trailer officers discovered a secret compartment concealing 24 cardboard boxes which contained a total of 76 bricks of an unknown substance which field tested positive for cocaine.
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Oct 13

Three convicted for role in theft of PEMEX product and sale of products in US

By PMC Legal Actions, Smugglers Brew Comments Off

The Government of Mexico provided information to ICE in 2007 alleging numerous companies and individuals were involved in stealing petroleum products from the Mexican oil company PEMEX, and for selling the stolen petroleum in the United States.

The Government of Mexico provided information to ICE in 2007 alleging numerous companies and individuals were involved in stealing petroleum products from the Mexican oil company PEMEX, and for selling the stolen petroleum in the United States.

I.C.E. News Release

HOUSTON – A criminal information charging three men for their roles in brokering the sale of petroleum products stolen from Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) has been unsealed following the guilty plea of the third defendant on Friday. These convictions were announced by U.S. Attorney Tim Johnson, Southern District of Texas, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

The charges resulted from an on-going ICE investigation into the theft of Mexican petroleum products, particularly condensate, and the transportation and sale of the petroleum product to U.S. companies.
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Sep 25

Mexicans Hurt in Border Incident Recovering

By PMC ICE & CBP Comments Off

CBP agents with one of the vans involved in the border incident at San Ysdiro POE

CBP agents with one of the vans involved in the border incident at San Ysdiro POE

MEXICO CITY – The three Mexicans who were injured when U.S. federal agents opened fire on several vehicles to prevent them from entering the United States illegally are out of danger and have received consular protection, the Foreign Relations Secretariat said.

“The Consulate General of Mexico in San Diego is carrying out actions to protect the Mexicans who were affected by the incident” Tuesday afternoon at the San Ysidro Port of Entry, the secretariat said in a statement.

The border crossing, which links San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico, was shut down around 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday after the U.S. agents opened fire on three vans believed to be carrying illegal immigrants that tried to evade inspection.
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Sep 25

Mexican Federal Police arrest 5 in drug rehab executions

By PMC Mexico Today, Narco Wars Comments Off

Federal agents escort alleged cartel hitmen, front to back: Roberto Salas, Luis Alfredo Galindo, Fernando Monte Godina,partially seen, Sergio Estrada Gutierrez and Julio Cesar Aleman in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Friday Sept. 25, 2009. Police said Friday the men, who are accused of dozens of murders, including two mass killings at drug treatment centers in this northern Mexico border city, are members of the Sinaloa cartel. (AP Photo/Raymundo Ruiz)

Federal agents escort alleged cartel hitmen, front to back: Roberto Salas, Luis Alfredo Galindo, Fernando Monte Godina,partially seen, Sergio Estrada Gutierrez and Julio Cesar Aleman in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Friday Sept. 25, 2009. Police said Friday the men, who are accused of dozens of murders, including two mass killings at drug treatment centers in this northern Mexico border city, are members of the Sinaloa cartel. (AP Photo/Raymundo Ruiz)

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Police have arrested five men accused of dozens of murders, including two mass killings at drug treatment centers in this northern Mexico border city.

Police say the men were members of the Sinaloa cartel, a violent gang entrenched in a brutal turf war for control of drug routes to the United States.

The men are accused of 45 different executions in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico’s most violent city. They were arrested by law enforcement agents during a routine street patrol, according to a statement released Friday by federal police.
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Sep 24

Like the Minutemen, Texas Rangers not welcome at the border

By PMC Border News, Fear Factor Comments Off
"We don't need the Texas Rangers to come to the border to quell any imaginary disturbance," said Lupe Trevino, vice chairman of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Southwest Border Task Force.

"We don't need the Texas Rangers to come to the border to quell any imaginary disturbance," said Lupe Trevino, vice chairman of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Southwest Border Task Force.

McALLEN, Texas — Rancher Mike Landry recently came upon a group of unarmed men dressed in camouflage burglarizing his guest house and stealing a truck from his 11,000 acres in Terrell County, rugged country bordering the Rio Grande in West Texas.

A couple of shots over their heads from his hunting rifle kept nine of them, all Mexican citizens, in place until Border Patrol agents arrived.

“It has really gotten to be pretty spooky,” said Landry, who has run cattle in the area for 29 years.

Stories like Landry’s seem to bolster Gov. Rick Perry’s recent decision to send elite teams from the state’s top law enforcement agency, the Texas Rangers, to remote borderlands to help them with security and deter a spillover of the gruesome drug-war violence plaguing Mexico. But Landry’s situation never grew violent, and many other ranchers, sheriffs and politicians along Texas’ 1,200 mile border with Mexico found the governor’s announcement puzzling.
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Sep 23

Drug War a Failure in U.S., Mexico

By PMC Border News, Narco Wars Comments Off

Victims of the violence in Cd Juarez is more evidence of the failed US and Mexico drug policies. Mexico has decriminalized amounts for personal use while the US continues to turn a blind eye to the problem.(AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)

Victims of the violence in Cd Juarez is more evidence of the failed US and Mexico drug policies. Mexico has decriminalized amounts for personal use while the US continues to turn a blind eye to the problem.(AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)

EL PASO, Texas – Academics, journalists and officials said at a conference here that the war on drugs has been a failure in both the United States and Mexico, and that the wave of violence has forced many Mexicans to flee their country and silenced journalists.

“Organized crime has Mexican society on the border very quiet and on its knees,” Alfredo Corchado, a correspondent in Mexico for the Dallas Morning News, said Monday at the Global Public Policy Forum on the U.S. War on Drugs, being hosted by the University of Texas at El Paso.

Luis Astorga, a researcher with the National Autonomous University of Mexico, said criminal organizations in the states of Sinaloa and Tamaulipas control drug trafficking along the U.S.-Mexican border.

The drug cartels became more brutal when they started employing former soldiers, who introduced paramilitary tactics to lay down the law for rivals, Astorga said.
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