Posts Tagged ‘border’
Officer, victim of border shooting identified
Authorities released the names Tuesday of a parolee and a police officer involved in a lengthy weekend road chase that ended near the U.S.-Mexico border when the lawman fatally shot the ex-con.
Documented gang member Carlos D. Martinez, 36, allegedly was ramming a stolen car into other vehicles in a traffic jam on Interstate 805 in [...]
Border agents wrangle 450 pounds of pot
Federal agents discovered about 450 pounds of marijuana hidden in two vehicles that entered the United States through the San Ysidro Port of Entry several hours apart on Thursday.
The first of the two drug smugglers entered the inspection station in a 1994 Chevrolet van about 12:30 a.m., according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. [...]
Border shooting at San Ysidro, four wounded
Four people, including three suspected “coyotes,” were hospitalized Wednesday with injuries suffered when federal agents opened fire on three crowded vans whose drivers tried to evade border agents at the San Ysidro Port of Entry.
The shooting and the investigation snarled traffic for hours Tuesday afternoon at the nation’s busiest border crossing. All northbound traffic was [...]
Customs siezes $500,000 in Otay Mesa
OTAY MESA — U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers arrested two Mexican men after nearly $500,000 was found stuffed and hidden in a duffel bag in their van today at the Otay Mesa border crossing, authorities said.
CBP officers and Border Patrol agents stopped and searched the men’s 1998 Chevrolet Astrovan at the inspection station at [...]
Big pot busts at border; street value pegged at $2 million
Officers with U.S. Customs and Border Protection thwarted a dozen marijuana smuggling attempts at the Mexican border over a 24-hour period, including one in which someone tried to move nearly two tons of the drug in a truckload of produce.
Border busts yield 1,686 pounds of narcotics
Federal officers staffing ports of entry along the California-Mexico line intercepted more than three-quarters of a ton of narcotics, captured 14 fugitives and stopped 448 would-be illegal border- crossers over the weekend.
Among the 1,686 pounds of drugs confiscated by U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel between 6 p.m. Friday and 6 this morning were heroin, [...]
San Diego County to receive federal drug trafficking funds
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced Wednesday the disbursement of more than $8.7 million in federal funds — primarily to San Diego County and Chula Vista — to fight crime and drug trafficking along the Southwest border.
Man arrested for having 80 pounds of marijuana
A 22-year-old man was jailed Friday after federal agents found nearly 80 pounds of marijuana hidden in the sport utility vehicle he drove into the Otay Mesa Port of Entry, authorities reported.
The San Ysidro resident pulled into the international inspection station in southeastern San Diego about 5:30 a.m., according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection [...]
Fire in Otay Mesa
SAN DIEGO - A 30-foot motorhome was destroyed and several other
vehicles damaged in a fire Sunday near the Otay Mesa Port of Entry, a San Diego
Fire-Rescue Department dispatcher said.
The blaze was reported around 10:30 a.m. at 8955 Paseo de la Fuente, the
dispatcher said.
The dispatcher said a trailer containing furniture was among the damaged
vehicles.
Investigators were [...]
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