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U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers working at the Bridge of the Americas commercial cargo facility in El Paso seized 1,470 pounds of marijuana in one bust on Thursday.
The seizure was made around 10:15 a.m. when a 1994 Freightliner tractor entered the BOTA cargo facility from Mexico. Border Protection officers selected the vehicle for gamma-ray [...]

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in Fabens, Texas caught a mother and her 12-year-old daughter smuggling marijuana into the country. As the two drove up, early Friday, to declare their citizenship to Customs and Border Patrol officers, a drug sniffing dog alerted them to the marijuana.
The 29-year-old Juarez woman and her 12-year-old daughter [...]

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Law enforcement officials say that Mexican drug cartels are establishing sophisticated marijuana-growing operations in North Texas. A drug investigator for the Department of Public Safety said “There is no doubt” that three large marijuana fields uncovered in Ellis and Navarro counties “have a tie to the border and a Mexican drug cartel.”
“The brought the tenders [...]

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For the second time in a week, inspectors of the United States Postal Inspection Service have arrested several Texas men who are allegedly involved in mailing packages containing marijuana through the U.S. Mail system. United States Attorney Tim Johnson announced today that Jose Adan Lopez, 20, Damian Caballaro, 23, and Heriberto Emmanuel Vera, 32, were [...]

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A local Austin man has been imprisoned for drug possession.  His sentence is for 41 months, although there is a chance he can be released after 27 months and remain under supervised release.  Law enforcement authorities found 104 grams, or 3.7 ounces, or cocaine in the man’s home.  The cocaine was hidden in a dirty [...]

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