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

Drug-related kidnappings in El Paso hard to pin down but ICE stands by 6

Jan 242009
 
 24/01/2009  Posted by PMC at 10:54 on 24/01/2009 Comments Off
Drug-related kidnappings in El Paso hard to pin down but ICE stands by 6

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency counts six kidnappings last year while the El Paso Police Department contends there were none at all. Three major law enforcement agencies are in disagreement over the number of kidnappings in El Paso last year that were connected to the drug trade and ongoing cartel war in Juarez. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency counts six kidnappings while the El Paso Police Department contends there were none at all. “We have not had one kidnapping related to anything going on in Mexico reported to the El Paso Police Department,” Officer Chris Mears, ….Read More

ICE officer from Mass. arrested in child-porn case

Jan 122009
 
 12/01/2009  Posted by PMC at 10:08 on 12/01/2009 Comments Off

A federal immigration officer from Hull, Ma. was accused today of having sex with an 11-year-old child while in Brazil to deport immigrants, taking photographs of the act. Michael Clifford, a 44-year-old immigration agent, was arrested today after a grand jury indicted him on a charge of possessing child pornography. He was ordered held without bail pending a hearing Tuesday. If convicted, he faces 15 to 30 years in jail, plus a fine of up to $250,000 and supervised release. A woman at Clifford’s house in Hull declined to comment. Clifford allegedly picked up the child late at night at ….Read More

ICE and the PROTECT ACT – Protecting the children of Mexico and the world

Jul 252008
 
 25/07/2008  Posted by PMC at 12:23 on 25/07/2008 1 Response »
ICE and the PROTECT ACT - Protecting the children of Mexico and the world

EL PASO — Immigration and Customs Enforcement special agents arrested a San Elizario, Texas man on Thursday after he was indicted on sex tourism charges, authorities said. A federal grand jury indicted Gustavo Solis-Martinez, 35, on July 16 for allegedly traveling out of the country with the intent of engaging in illicit sexual conduct with a teenage girl in Juárez, a federal offense under the PROTECT Act. PROTECT, which stands for Prosecutorial Remedies and Other Tools to end the Exploitation of Children Today, was signed into law in 2003. “Sex tourism is a federal offense that ICE investigates aggressively with ….Read More

ICE: No Proof Home Invasion Suspects Part of Mexican Military

Jun 292008
 
 29/06/2008  Posted by PMC at 11:41 on 29/06/2008 1 Response »
ICE: No Proof Home Invasion Suspects Part of Mexican Military

The newest outrage against Mexico going around the blogosphere and on the rabid right wing talk shows and overnight conspiracy fests, is the story of personnel of the Mexican Army being involved in a home invasion and murder in Phoenix Arizona. When I first heard this, I believe it was on Lou Dobbs nightly hatefest, I was incredulous at the stupidity of the report and that anyone with a lick of sense would believe it. Now, KFYI in Phoenix is reporting Immigration and Customs Enforcement is saying, mmigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said three suspects arrested in a Monday morning ….Read More

[Updated] Laredo Trucks Drivers, Others Charged in Massive Human Smuggling Scheme

Mar 262008
 
 26/03/2008  Posted by PMC at 15:43 on 26/03/2008 Comments Off
[Updated] Laredo Trucks Drivers, Others Charged in Massive Human Smuggling Scheme

They are believed to have smuggled hundreds of illegal immigrants into the United States but now, 41 truck drivers, guides, brokers, recruiters and smuggling leaders are facing criminal charges. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) special agents started the investigation in Laredo but made the arrests across several American cities over the last seven weeks. Investigators said the group used truck drivers to smuggle at least 376 illegal immigrants from Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras into the United States. Most of the immigrants were discovered tractor trailers and attempting to pass through different checkpoints in and around Laredo. Most ….Read More

Mexican Trucks not the ones smuggling drugs

Mar 192008
 
 19/03/2008  Posted by PMC at 15:37 on 19/03/2008 12 Responses »
Mexican Trucks not the ones smuggling drugs

Mexican trucks, especially the participants in the Cross Border Program, despite what the anti-Mexican crowd would like you to believe, are not the ones trying to smuggle drugs and people into the U.S. And interesting week in Laredo with the seizure of street drugs valued at $3.2 million dollars. A five-day span during which Customs and Border Protection officials in Laredo seized more than $3 million of narcotics illustrates the different techniques drug cartels will use to ensure their operations are successful, CBP officials said.From Wednesday through Sunday, commercial buses, footwear and non-commercial vehicles were used by men and women ….Read More

Back to Mexico; U.S. hands over suspected killer

Jan 182008
 
 18/01/2008  Posted by PMC at 08:26 on 18/01/2008 Comments Off
Back to Mexico; U.S. hands over suspected killer

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents met Mexican federal agents on the Lincoln-Juarez International Bridge on Wednesday to transfer custody of a prisoner wanted in Mexico for homicide and drug trafficking, authorities said.Officials with the Agencia Federal de Investigacion, who took custody of Juan Garcia-Flores, 36, said he is wanted in Guanajuato and the border state Coahuila. Though ICE officials only confirmed the alleged drug trafficking, AFI agent Jesus Garcia said Garcia-Flores was also being sought on homicide charges in Mexico. He declined to comment on how long Garcia-Flores had been sought by Mexican law enforcement. Garcia did not clarify ….Read More

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