American Trucker busted with cocaine valued at $4 Million Dollars

Jun 282011
 
 28/06/2011  Posted by PMC at 00:26 on 28/06/2011 Comments Off
American Trucker busted with cocaine valued at $4 Million Dollars

RAYMONDVILLE – A routine traffic stop in the Valley by DPS leads to a close to $4 million drug bust. Fifty-six-year-old Bobby John McCarty was pulled over by DPS in Raymondville on Saturday. Court documents show his tractor trailer was taken in for further inspection at Los Tomates Bridge. That’s when authorities discovered 117 pounds of cocaine wrapped in 44 bundles in his fuel tank. The cocaine has a street value of $3.7 million. McCarty was charged with drug smuggling. He is being held without bond. SOURCE: KRGV.com

Union Pacific fights fines over drug seizures on the UP roads

Jun 192011
 
 19/06/2011  Posted by PMC at 10:18 on 19/06/2011 Comments Off
Union Pacific fights fines over drug seizures on the UP roads

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 rail shipper on the US-Mexico border and the largest recipient of fines, refuses to pay more than $388 million in fines, up from $37.5 million three years ago when the screening began. In federal litigation the railroad argues that it is being punished for something ….Read More

It’s harvest time in Mexico and Ultralight flights are the new method to haul drugs

Feb 172009
 
 17/02/2009  Posted by PMC at 08:16 on 17/02/2009 Comments Off
It's harvest time in Mexico and Ultralight flights are the new method to haul drugs

Craft can evade radar along border, feds say NOGALES, Ariz. – On Oct. 10, Jesus Iriarte hauled a load of pot from Sonora across the U.S. border. The Mexican national was like hundreds of other drug couriers except for one important distinction: He transported the marijuana by strapping it to a motorized hang glider, something that looks like a lawn mower in the sky. Federal customs agents say radar-dodging ultralights may be an emerging trend among drug smugglers looking for new ways to outwit increased surveillance. But the planes aren’t the safest strategy. In the past four months, three of ….Read More

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