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High school students in San Diego County hired to smuggle drugs across US-Mexico border
By: Admin On: 05-21-2018 Category: drug trafficking Comment: 0
Many high school students across San Diego are being recruited by Mexican cartels for cross-border drug smuggling, according to the U.S. Attorney for San Diego. The most recent case involves a former student of Castle Park High School in Chula Vista who has been charged with conspiring to distribute drugs, and illegally bring foreign nationals […]
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Border officials arrest woman driving with 231 pounds of drugs in vehicle
By: Admin On: 04-30-2018 Category: drug trafficking, drugs, Illegal drugs Comment: 0
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers have arrested a mother, who was driving with her five children in a minivan, after they discovered nearly 231 pounds of drugs stashed in the vehicle. The 34-year-old woman, whose name has not been disclosed, was driving a Honda Odyssey from Mexico through San Diego’s Otay Mesa Port […]
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San Diego driver arrested for transporting cocaine, heroin
By: Admin On: 09-05-2017 Category: addiction, drug trafficking, drugs, Illegal drugs Comment: 0
During a traffic stop on Aug. 27, 2017, federal authorities arrested 33-year-old tractor-trailer driver Abraham Castro of San Diego on charges of traffic violations on the New Jersey Turnpike. As investigating officers approached the vehicle headed northbound via Essex County, another passenger, 42-year-old Hector Leonel Lucas-Ramos, suddenly sprang out of the vehicle to zip up […]
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Major cocaine bust at San Ysidro port of entry
By: Admin On: 07-27-2017 Category: addiction, drug bust, drug trafficking, Illegal drugs Comment: 0
Officers of the United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP), stationed at the San Ysidro port of entry (POE) in San Diego near the America-Mexico border, on July 19, 2017, seized 33 packages containing more than 98 pounds of cocaine worth around $1.5 million hidden inside a car. While waiting in the queue for inspection […]
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13 men charged for series of cocaine busts off San Diego’s coast
By: Admin On: 06-29-2017 Category: addiction, drug trafficking, drugs, Illegal drugs Comment: 0
As many as 13 Latin Americans were charged recently in connection with four separate drug busts that saw the United States Coast Guard seizing nearly 11,000 pounds of cocaine from vessels at sea during May-June 2017. The accused men, mostly Ecuadorians and Colombians, were charged on June 23 with possession of cocaine with the intent […]
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Border Patrol agents confiscate drugs worth $350K in San Diego
By: Admin On: 05-29-2017 Category: addiction, drug trafficking, drugs, Illegal drugs Comment: 0
Three drug busts conducted in a span of 12 hours by Border Patrol agents at different checkpoints across San Diego County have led to a startling discovery of huge quantities of methamphetamine and heroin worth more than $350,000, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said. In the first bust at a checkpoint on I-8 […]
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Mastermind behind San Diego’s drug tunnel sentenced to prison
By: Admin On: 03-28-2017 Category: drug bust, drug trafficking Comment: 0
A Mexican drug cartel member has been sentenced to 97 months in federal prison for his involvement in constructing a tunnel from Tijuana to Otay Mesa in San Diego in 1993. However, the eight-year sentence of Antonio Reynoso Gonzalez has been reduced to 57 months because of credit for 40 months of jail time served […]
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Drugs worth 7 million seized in San Diego and Imperial Valley Counties
By: Admin On: 03-08-2017 Category: drug bust, drug trafficking, Marijuana Comment: 0
The Southwest Border (SWB), comprising the five regions such as West Texas, New Mexico, South Texas, Arizona, and the California Alliance Border Group (CBAG), serves as the primary entry point for illegal drugs such as methamphetamine, marijuana, cocaine, heroin, and other dangerous drugs and precursor chemicals. The region is also known as the major drug […]
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3 San Diego men arrested for trafficking marijuana
By: Admin On: 01-09-2017 Category: addiction, drug trafficking, Illegal drugs, Marijuana Comment: 0
America is in the grip of substance abuse epidemic and San Diego is not immune to this calamity. With its port on the Pacific coast and its proximity to the Mexican border, San Diego is, in fact, on the forefront of the drug trade rampant across the United States. In early December 2016, officers of […]
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Drug tunnel discovered near San Diego-Mexico border
By: Admin On: 12-07-2016 Category: addiction, drug addiction, drug trafficking, drugs Comment: 0
The constant flow of illegal substances and narcotics across the United States-Mexico border has led to increased cross-border violence and instability. In the recent past, many Mexican drug cartels have started using innovative ways to ship drugs, such as digging trans-border narco-tunnels to transport the illicit cargo. Recently, the U.S. and Mexican state law enforcement […]
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