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EL PASO, TX – U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers working at the El Paso port of entry seized 589 pounds of marijuana Tuesday. The drugs were encased in a shipment of molded concrete stepping stones.
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LEAD: A Federal narcotics intelligence center here sent out a confidential cable last month to state police officials across the country with this alert: A Federal narcotics intelligence center here sent out a confidential cable last month to state police officials across the country with this alert: Maryland State Police reported one pound - By RICHARD L. BERKE, Special to The New York Times
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WAR WITHOUT BORDERS; Torrent of Illicit Cash Flows Where the U.S. and Mexico Meet
The streets of Laredo are awash in money, stacks of grimy bills tainted with cocaine residue, wrapped in plastic and stowed in secret compartments built into the trucks, buses and cars that flow south over the Mexican border daily like a motorized river. Customs officials have discovered a host of ingenious hiding places, from $3 million secreted - By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr. and MARC LACEY; James C. McKinley Jr. reported from Laredo, and Marc Lacey from Mexico City, Ciudad Juárez and Culiacán, Mexico. Santiago Fourcade contributed reporting from Monterrey, Mexico, Elisabeth Malkin from Mexico City and Randal C. Archibold from Los Angeles.
TRACES OF TERROR: IMMIGRATION SECURITY; Border Customs Agents Are Pushed to the Limit
It is high noon, 102 in the shade, and Andrés Guerra is a blue blur in his wool-blend United States Customs uniform, dashing from car to car at this border crossing from Mexico. Interrogating drivers, flashing his mirror under tailpipes, peering into gas tanks with a fiber-optic probe, tuning in his radiation detector, he is guarding the border as - Customs Service agents working at border crossing points between United States and Mexico are now on front line of defense in war against terrorists and their weapons; are on around-the-clock high alert, working double shifts and being pushed to their limits by new task; agents must still keep cross-border commerce flowing freely, sometimes having to determine in seconds whether to inspect a vehicle; perform delicate balancing act between interests of free trade and national security even as they seize more drugs than any other arm of government and collect about $22 billion a year in revenues; maps and charts show border crossing points and amount of traffic; photo (M) - By TIM WEINER
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Drug Lord, Ruthless and Elusive, Reaches High in Mexico
Since an aide to President Vicente Fox was arrested last week on suspicion of having contacts with drug traffickers, Mexico has been unsettled by the prospect that the tentacles of its criminal networks extend to the highest levels of government. Though prosecutors have not publicly identified the cartel involved, law enforcement officials say the - Arrest of aide to President Vicente Fox on suspicion of ties to drug traffickers suggests that criminal tentacles extend to highest levels of Mexican government; aide allegedly was in contact with syndicate of Joaquin Guzman Loera, clever ruthless gangster who has eluded agents again and again and ignited underworld war that has killed dozens of traffickers, police officers, federal agents and bystanders; photos; map; accused aide Nahum Acosta Lugo allegedly passed on details of Foxs travel plans to Guzman associates in Agua Prieta, which is part of drug lords expanding turf (M) - By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr.
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Is EL PASO a sign of what the rest of America can expect from ILLEGAL ALIENS?
More and more Mexico drugs are coming here is this because with more and more illegals aliens this also brings increases in drugs,crimes.Is EL PASO THE GATEWAY FOR DRUGS?
EL Paso sets the tone.Bridge inspectors seize 1,667 pounds of pot (5:18 p.m.)
By Louie Gilot / El Paso Times
El Paso bridge inspectors made their second-largest drug bust of the year Tuesday at the Bridge of the Americas commercial cargo facility when they found 1,677 pounds of marijuana in a shipment of light fixtures, Customs and Border Protection officials said.
The estimated street value of the drugs is $1.7 million. No arrests were made.
Drug smugglers are increasingly attempting to cross narcotics strapped to the bodies of passengers in vehicles at the international bridges in El Paso, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials said.
The latest reported seizure occurred about 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Paso del Norte Bridge when two Juárez women were found with a total of 32 pounds of cocaine hidden in girdles they were wearing, federal officials said. The women were passengers in a 1993 Buick Century.
"It used to be very rare, almost never seen, that someone would have dope strapped to their body when they were in a vehicle. It used to be mostly pedestrians coming in the (pedestrian) line" with contraband on their bodies, Customs and Border Protection spokesman Roger Maier said.
Maier said border inspectors in the past 12 months have seen an upward trend in similar smuggling attempts. An exact number of cases was not immediately available.
The girdle cases have involved both men and women. The drug is usually cocaine, which has a higher dollar value than marijuana."Its another thing the officers have to focus on, another threat," Maier said.
In the Tuesday incident, an officer at an inspection booth at the Paso del Norte Bridge became suspicious when some of the occupants in the car were nervous and had a bulky appearance, officials said.
The Buick was sent to secondary inspection.
An officer spotted a bundle in the waistband of one of the women as she got out of the car. A drug-sniffing dog reacted to that womans seat in the car. A subsequent pat-down search of the women led to the discovery of the cocaine.
Photos provided by Customs and Border Protection showed that both women had large builds.
Martha Alicia Rincon Marquez, 36, was allegedly wearing a girdle with five bundles weighing a total of 13.1 pounds of cocaine. Maria Del Carmen Castro Lucero, also 36, allegedly had five bundles totaling 18.9 pounds of cocaine, Customs and Border Protection officials said. The cocaine has an estimated street value of $640,000.
"This important and sizeable seizure was the direct result of a diligent and focused CBP officer performing a thorough primary inspection," CBP El Paso Port Director David Longoria said in a news release. An investigation continues.
Answer: No. Los Gatos Hills sets the tone and gives us what we can expect from continued illegal immigration.
A lot of them aren't even bothering to import the drugs anymore. They just grow them here. Note that no US citizens were perpetrators.
It was supposed to be a fairly typical bust on the second day in the annual marijuana-eradication season by statewide officials -- but it turned deadly and anything but routine.
By day's end Friday, one suspect lay dead in the rugged hills after a gunbattle, one Fish and Game warden was shot by an accomplice guarding the pot field -- the first shooting of an agent in the 21-year history of the raids -- and authorities had seized as many as 50,000 plants, much more than they found during all of last year, investigators said.
Camouflaged sheriff's deputies carrying rifles scoured the steep hills above Los Gatos all day and throughout the night searching for another suspect who fled the early-morning raid. Authorities were to continue the search today.
"They're being more confrontational because there's a lot more marijuana out there," said Bob Cooke, special agent in charge of the California Department of Justice Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement in San Jose.
One suspect has been killed in raids each of the past two years, and agents have been shot at -- but never hit, Cooke said.
Fish and Game Warden Kyle Kroll, a 25-year-old Mountain View resident, was struck by a bullet that went through both his legs. Kroll, who has been a warden for two years, underwent surgery at Valley Medical Center in San Jose during the morning and was expected to recover, authorities said.
The incident began early Friday when half a dozen officers from several agencies assembled at 5 a.m. and drove up the mountain to the end of Wagner Road. They hiked for 1 1/2 hours to land that is closed to the public but where thousands of mature marijuana plants had been spotted by sheriff's deputies in helicopters on Mount Umunhum. The land is owned by the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District.
About 7 a.m., officers encountered two armed men who apparently had been guarding the crop, said Terrance Helm, spokesman for the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Department.
Details of what happened next were scarce because radio communications were poor in the remote area and crime scene investigators had to be airlifted by chopper to the scene, Helm said.
Gunfire broke out between the pot guards and the officers, and one of the guards was hit while the other man ran. All available deputies in the county were summoned to Los Gatos Christian Church near the base of the mountain, which was headquarters for the operation throughout the day, Helm said.
Kroll was airlifted off the mountain while a SWAT team swarmed in and blocked off the area around the injured suspect. By the time medical workers arrived, the man had died, Helm said. Information on the man was not available from the coroner, who also had to be airlifted to the scene.
Investigators said they hadn't assembled a detailed description of the men.
"It makes no sense," Helm said of the shootout. "Generally, when they know law enforcement is coming, they flee. They generally don't shoot it out with the cops."
The eradication project is run by the Campaign Against Marijuana Planting, a program of the California Department of Justice. CAMP has five teams that work throughout the state trying to locate and destroy marijuana plants, which are starting to be harvested this time of year.
In all of 2004, authorities seized 6,026 marijuana plants in Santa Clara County during raids like the one Friday. But if the high estimate of Friday's raid holds, authorities will in two days have seized more than eight times what they did in the county for all of last year, according to CAMP statistics.
A separate raid Thursday resulted in the seizure of 5,000 plants from Big Basin State Park north of Santa Cruz, Cooke said. Last year, authorities destroyed 621,315 plants statewide. The harvest season, when the raids are conducted, runs through the end of September.
The farm raided Friday was much larger than authorities initially thought. They suspected that up to 10,000 plants were being grown on two or three acres -- but as the helicopters scanned the area looking for the suspect, they discovered the swath to actually be about a mile long, Cooke said, and it could yield up to 50,000 plants. The plants stand between 4 and 7 feet tall.
People planting marijuana in the area probably chose it because it was closed to the public, said John Maciel, operations manager for the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District. Signs denoting the closed portion, which is under planning for recreational development, are posted throughout the area, he said.
Each plant is worth about $4,000 in street sales, Cooke said -- meaning that if there are indeed 50,000 plants of high quality, the crop could be worth $200 million. Most of the large-scale marijuana-growing operations in California are run out of Mexico, though it was unclear Friday whose plants were on the mountain and where they would have been sold.
Cooke estimated that it would take a dozen people to cultivate the crop on Mount Umunhum.
Officers from the California Highway Patrol, the California Division of Forestry, the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Department, the Department of Fish and Game, and the San Jose Police Department worked out of the church-based command post.
Four helicopters were being used in the search, and late Friday, a helicopter carried a large load of marijuana down from the mountain in a net.
E-mail the writers at wbuchanan@sfchronicle.com and sherel@sfchronicle.com.
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Mexicos Drug Cartels Wage Fierce Battle for Their Turf
Prisons have not contained the drug war. In the last four years, Mexico has made unprecedented advances in its fight against drug cartels by capturing many of the countrys most powerful kingpins. Now, however, a new wave of drug-related killings has made clear that cartel leaders have begun to regroup, and are waging deadly campaigns from Mexicos - Mexico has captured many of countrys most powerful drug kingpins, but new wave of drug-related killings makes clear that cartel leaders have begun to regroup and are waging deadly campaigns from countrys maximum security prisons to keep control of their territories; law enforcement officials say epicenter of recent violence is drug dealer Joaquin Guzman Loera, who escaped from prison in 2001 and now seems determined to seize countrys principal drug routes; say leaders of other cartels have formed alliance and hired former special forces officers as hit men, orchestrating vicious counterattacks from principal maximum security proson; photos (M) - By GINGER THOMPSON and JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr.
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