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Valley Police Beat: Cocaine and heroin found in muffler, 18-year-old arrested
CALEXICO - U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers found 32 pounds of heroin and cocaine hidden inside a vehicle’s muffler and arrested an 18-year-old suspected of drug smuggling at the Calexico downtown Port of Entry on Sunday morning,...Tags: Drug Trafficking, Heroin, U.S. Customs and Border Protection
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Cocaine and heroin found in muffler, 18-year-old arrested
CALEXICO - U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers found 32 pounds of heroin and cocaine hidden inside a vehicle’s muffler and arrested an 18-year-old suspected of drug smuggling at the Calexico downtown Port of Entry on Sunday morning,...Tags: Drug Trafficking, Heroin, U.S. Customs and Border Protection
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May 14, In History: Officials boarded a dilapidated boat packed with 198 undocumented Chinese
>> 50 Years Ago — SACRAMENTO — The bill giving seven miles of Imperial County river frontage to Arizona will now go to a conference committee of senators and assemblymen following a defeat of the bill in the Senate yesterday. Assemblyman...Tags: Vicodin (drug)
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Valley Police Beat: More than $1.5 million in drugs seized
CALEXICO - U.S. Customs and Border Protections officers seized drugs estimated to be worth more than $1.5 million in four separate seizures at the Andrade and Calexico Ports of Entry over the weekend, according to a press release. Around 7:40 a.m. Friday...Tags: Drug Trafficking, Crimes, Police Arrests, Crime, Law and Justice, Homes
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Our View: Fish-smuggling ring reflective of agents' multi-faceted task
It’s the job of today’s federal agents posted at the nation’s ports of entry to uncover humans or illicit drugs being smuggled across the border from Mexico. They’ve learned that there is no end to the ways devious minds find of...Tags: U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Mexico
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Lucrative fish-smuggling trend active in region
Staff WriterCALEXICO — When Calexico resident Song Shen Zhen, 73, recently drove through a Calexico Port of Entry, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer noticed plastic grocery bags under backseat floor mats. There weren’t drugs inside the bags...Tags: Arts and Culture, Endangered Species, Wildlife, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, John Reed
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Renowned human rights activist priest visits Mexicali
Staff Writer, Copy EditorMEXICALI – The stream of Central American immigrants that treks through Mexico on the way to the United States are the face of a “humanitarian disaster” that hardly anyone seems to notice, said Father Alejandro Solalinde. Years of...Tags: Washington, DC, Roman Catholicism, Christianity, Religion and Belief, Crime, Law and Justice
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Apr. 13 in History: Apparent find of oil gas near Yuma may spur interest by oil companies
>> 50 Years Ago — EL CENTRO — Members of the El Centro Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors today called on the city council to spend city tax money on the city of El Centro. Specifically, the chamber directors asked the council to cease...Tags: Corporate Crime, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Christianity, Methodist, Religion and Belief
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El Centro Sector Border Patrol busts marijuana smuggling attempt
Border Patrol agents stopped a drug-smuggling attempt earlier this week, seizing more than 80 pounds of marijuana. El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents assigned to the Indio station apprehended a suspected drug smuggler and seized more than $66,000...Tags: Drug Trafficking
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Valley Police Beat: Man reports group of 'gangsters'
EL CENTRO - A reporting party notified the El Centro Police Department of a group of gangsters who were allegedly camping out of a park, according to police logs. The reporting party was described as irate and reportedly advised the dispatcher that he...Tags: U.S. Border Patrol
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Valley Police Beat: Man reports group of 'gangsters' in El Centro
Imperial Valley Press Staff WriterA reporting party notified the El Centro Police Department of a group of gangsters who were allegedly camping out of a park, according to police logs. The reporting party was described as irate and reportedly advised the dispatcher that he and his friend... -
Valley Police Beat: More than 180 pounds of marijuana seized
CALEXICO — U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested three men trying to smuggle 184.2 pounds of marijuana into the U.S. on Sunday night, according to a press release. Around 7:51 p.m., an agent saw five men illegally enter the United States east of the...
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