American trucker busted with 48 illegals in trailer

Jun 182010
 
 18/06/2010  Posted by PMC at 15:45 on 18/06/2010 Comments Off
American trucker busted with 48 illegals in trailer

LAREDO — Border agents found 48 illegal immigrants in the back of a tractor trailer during a routine stop at a checkpoint in south Texas. The trailer was refrigerated, according to the driver’s attorney, and all of those in the trailer declined medical treatment, immigration officials said. The driver, Wayne West of Balch Springs, was charged with transporting illegal immigrants, according to court documents filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Laredo. He’s scheduled for a detention hearing on Friday. His attorney, Russell Jordan, said he couldn’t say much about the case because the investigation is still being done, but ….Read More

In the Courts – Two Dallas Men on trial for smuggling pot

Jul 262008
 
 26/07/2008  Posted by PMC at 08:52 on 26/07/2008 Comments Off

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.

USDA Inspectors Indicted in Laredo

Apr 182008
 
 18/04/2008  Posted by PMC at 05:37 on 18/04/2008 Comments Off
USDA Inspectors Indicted in Laredo

Three men accused of allowing agricultural products infested with a plant pest to enter the U.S. from Mexico appeared in federal court Thursday.In an indictment unsealed Thursday, federal prosecutors allege that Rafael Edmundo Melo Jr., 40, Arturo Ramirez, 46, and Jose Homero Reyes, 48, all of Laredo, conspired to allow improperly fumigated floral greenery and broccoli to enter the U.S., allowing for the possible spread of plant pests. Melo and Reyes, both U.S. Department of Agriculture employees charged with overseeing agricultural product fumigation, falsely claimed overtime hours for fumigation they never conducted. Ramirez, the owner of Ambush Exterminators, accepted payment ….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 cross border drayage trucks revealed (28 photos – RAW)

Mar 192008
 
 19/03/2008  Posted by PMC at 23:31 on 19/03/2008 Comments Off

OOIDA’ executive vice president Todd Spencer, continues to try and convince the public, the Courts and Congress that the companies participating in the Cross Border Demonstration Project re using the same trucks as the border shuttle fleet or drayage operators. He insinuates this fleet is ill maintained, worn out junk rigs that have no place on US highways. But of course, he’s wrong as we’ve proved time and again on this site. CANACAR, the Mexican equivalent of the ATA, with about 150 member carriers is working to change this perception and encourage member carriers to upgrade their drayage equipment Whether ….Read More

No to a border wall in Laredo – It will not help

Mar 022008
 
 02/03/2008  Posted by PMC at 09:44 on 02/03/2008 Comments Off

A border wall does nothing but represent racism and fear, said David Almaraz, president of the local American Civil Liberties Union chapter, at a protest Saturday morning.Almaraz was one of approximately 75 Laredo residents who marched from San Agustin Plaza to City Hall in protest of a border wall. Alongside the residents were several city and county officials, all of whom expressed strong opposition to the federal government’s move to build a fence. “All the walls we know in history have come tumbling down,” said District III Councilman Michael Landeck. As the protesters marched their way down the streets of ….Read More

Fmr head of Laredo multi-agency Narcotics Task Force, takes plea deal

Oct 272007
 
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His voice breaking, the man who had helped bring drug traffickers to justice as a top official in the Laredo multi-agency Narcotics Task Force stood in federal court Friday, apologizing to the court and to his family for taking money from undercover federal agents who he believed were smuggling cocaine into the U.S. from Mexico.Julio Alfonso Lopez, the task force’s former deputy commander, stood in a black suit and cowboy boots next to his co-defendant, Meliton Valadez, who admitted to brokering the transactions.

Wall of Shame

Jun 152007
 
 15/06/2007  Posted by PMC at 13:23 on 15/06/2007 Comments Off

Local landowners and politicians say they are being ignored by officials in Washington with regards to the proposed construction of a border fence – again.Tuesday, the White House announced President Bush was threatening to veto a House homeland security bill that mandated considering local input on the construction of the proposed fence along the U.S.-Mexico border. According to the Associated Press, the administration said the mandate for local input would “serve as an impediment to gaining control of the border.” Laredo Mayor Raul Salinas considered the proposed veto a disgrace. “Unbelievable,” he said. “In other words, we don’t have a ….Read More

Feds get tough; Officers, army set up checkpoints throughout city

May 192007
 
 19/05/2007  Posted by PMC at 12:31 on 19/05/2007 Comments Off

NUEVO LAREDO — In a much-needed show of force, agents with the Agencia Federal de Investigaciones (AFI, similar to the FBI) and federal highway police set up a checkpoint Friday on the Bulevar Ribereño for vehicles headed to the Juárez-Lincoln International Bridge.Every vehicle was stopped and searched. It was a welcome sight for many Nuevo Laredoans as well as city and state leaders, a day after there was a report of a gun battle Thursday that left one man dead in Los Torres subdivision. The body was removed before police could arrive. Tamaulipas Gov. Eugenio Hernández Flores, in Monterrey to ….Read More

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