Omnibus Mexicanos – One arrested for arms smuggling at border

Aug 302008
 
 30/08/2008  Posted by PMC at 09:28 on 30/08/2008 Comments Off
Omnibus Mexicanos - One arrested for arms smuggling at border

During a routine inspection of an American bus entering Mexico, Army units discovered a person trying to smuggle guns into Mexico illegally. The bus, Omnibuses Mexicanos of Houston Texas. The location, Bridge number 2 at the foot of I-35. Confiscated was a 12 gauge shotgun, a .22 caliber rifle with scope and a .380 semi auto pistol from Luis Estrada Carrizal, 62 years old. All passengers were detained for a period of time at the Palacio Federal by agents of Mexican Customs and the Attorney General’s investigators. All with the exception of Mr. Carrizel were allowed to continue their journey ….Read More

Lax US Gun Laws arm Mexican Cartels and contribute to the violence

Aug 272008
 
 27/08/2008  Posted by PMC at 13:42 on 27/08/2008 Comments Off
Lax US Gun Laws arm Mexican Cartels and contribute to the violence

A push by U.S. and Mexican authorities to combat the high-powered arms trafficking that fuels Mexico’s bloody drug war is putting increasing numbers of suspected drug smugglers in court. Prosecutions for federal gun law violations are on pace to reach a 20-year high in South Texas as federal agents work to stem the “iron river of guns” that officials estimate supply 90 percent of the weapons used by the cartels. The push is stretching the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ 135 agents along the 2,000-mile border who are tasked with monitoring some 6,700 licensed gun dealers. In ….Read More

Former American trucking company owner sentenced for drug smuggling

Jul 292008
 
 29/07/2008  Posted by PMC at 20:08 on 29/07/2008 1 Response »

McALLEN -(The Monitor) The former owner of an Edinburg. Texas trucking business was sentenced to 30 years in prison Monday for his role in a drug smuggling and money laundering ring. A federal jury in Houston found Ricardo Garcia Heredia, 44, of McAllen, guilty in May of multiple counts of conspiracy and drug possession. Prosecutors allege Garcia used his business – Edinburg-based Earth Transportation – as a front to recruit drivers for cocaine shipments that passed through the Rio Grande Valley on their way to Chicago.

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.

Sen Cornyn introduces legislation for permanent revocation of CDL’s

Jul 122008
 
 12/07/2008  Posted by PMC at 15:03 on 12/07/2008 Comments Off
Sen Cornyn introduces legislation for permanent revocation of CDL's

U.S. Sen. John Cornyn announced new federal legislation Friday that aims to crack down on commercial truck drivers who smuggle illegal immigrants.The legislation, dubbed the Putting the Brakes on Human Smuggling Act, imposes tougher penalties against commercial truck drivers convicted of smuggling humans, said Cornyn, who was flanked at the Laredo North checkpoint by Carlos X. Carrillo, Laredo Sector Border Patrol chief; Gene Belmares, mayor pro tem; and Steve McCraw, Texas Homeland Security director, among others. “While those who smuggle narcotics generally lose their commercial license permanently, human smugglers are often free to continue operating commercial vehicles and frequently continue ….Read More

Texas to revoke truckers CDL for smuggling violationsb

Jun 202008
 
 20/06/2008  Posted by PMC at 06:37 on 20/06/2008 4 Responses »
Texas to revoke truckers CDL for smuggling violationsb

AUSTIN — Truckers who smuggle drugs or people into the U.S. are now risking not only prison time but also the loss of their commercial driver’s licenses as Texas uses a longstanding law in a new border crime crackdown. “Up until today, when those lawbreakers had their trucks apprehended, they were convicted in federal court, they typically paid a small fine or served a brief sentence, then it was back to business as usual. Well, starting today, that all changes,” Gov. “Slick” Rick Perry said Thursday at the Texas Capitol with U.S. Border Patrol sector chiefs. “If you are a ….Read More

U.S. bus company owners indicted in drug smuggling conspiracy

Apr 252008
 
 25/04/2008  Posted by PMC at 07:18 on 25/04/2008 Comments Off

Editors Note: Despite what some of the “white trash” right wing blogs, whose mission in life is to trash Mexico is claiming, a US owned bus companies owners and employees came under indictment this week for using company equipment to smuggle drugs from the Rio Grande Valley to points north. Good catch, but why did it take so long? Eighteen persons, including alleged drug traffickers and the owners/operators of commercial bus companies operating from Mexico into the Rio Grande Valley to numerous U.S. cities and their drivers, have been indicted for transporting large loads of marijuana and cocaine in specially ….Read More

CBP officers seize $1.8 million in drugs

Feb 202008
 
 20/02/2008  Posted by PMC at 08:57 on 20/02/2008 Comments Off
CBP officers seize $1.8 million in drugs

LAREDO — U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized $1.8 million in cocaine and marijuana in three separate incidents recently, according to a news release from the agency. The largest seizure occurred Feb. 17, at the Lincoln-Juarez Bridge when a drug dog reacted to the odor of narcotics emanating from the rear rocker panel area of a 2007 Toyota Camry. Officers found nearly 42 pounds of cocaine. A passenger in the car, Darrell Wayne Phillips, 43, of Clewiston, Fla., was arrested. The cocaine has an estimated street value of $1.3 million. On Feb. 15, at 6:40 p.m. at the Gateway ….Read More

Ex Border Patrol Agent, wife, BUSTED!

Jan 122008
 
 12/01/2008  Posted by PMC at 22:02 on 12/01/2008 Comments Off

A former Border Patrol agent and his wife, who also own the restaurant Burger Patrol, were arrested Thursday on charges of conspiracy to transport illegal immigrants.An indictment unsealed in federal court Friday alleges that on three occasions in 2007, David Cruz, 32, and Susana Lopez-Portillo De Cruz, 35, conspired to transport illegal immigrants by motor vehicle. The indictment alleges that the couple transported 10 illegal immigrants on Jan. 23 and eight on July 21.

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