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$12.6 Million in Narcotics Seized by Border Patrol Since Friday

August 16th 2012   ·   16 Comments

CORPUS CHRISTI – Border Patrol officials announced today that more than $12.6 million worth of marijuana and cocaine were intercepted by agents in the Rio Grande Valley Sector in the past four days.

Last Friday, agents working the Falfurrias checkpoint on Highway 281 seized nearly 4,500 pounds of marijuana hidden inside the trailer of a big rig. On the same day, agents at the Sarita checkpoint along Highway 77 found more than 2,600 pounds of marijuana stashed inside a grain hopper on a flatbed trailer.

The other seizures occurred further south. On Sunday, agents near La Rosita spooked several suspects loading bundles of marijuana into a pickup near the Rio Grande. The suspects swam back to Mexico, leaving 1,100 pounds of marijuana behind.

In a release, officials said there were additional, but smaller, marijuana seizures and a bust of 70 pounds of cocaine. Details were not provided on those incidents.

 

A version of this column originally appeared in www.kztv10.com.

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Readers Comments (16)

  1. Bert Sousa says:
    August 16, 2012 at 3:09 pm

    Screw the Dope, seize some money, Obama is spending it too quick.

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  2. Dale 'n Maggie Linn says:
    August 16, 2012 at 3:10 pm

    our federal government is a national trajedy

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  3. Debi Chapman says:
    August 16, 2012 at 3:11 pm

    Awesome job! Keep up the good work, and make sure your weapons are forever loaded with hollow points instead of freaking bean bags!

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  4. Gary Hamill says:
    August 16, 2012 at 3:11 pm

    better watch the dope obammy will sell it back to the cartel

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  5. Diane Nicosia Morgan says:
    August 16, 2012 at 3:12 pm

    Maybe they should sell it back to the Mexicans to pay down our national debt

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  6. Ray Zeman says:
    August 16, 2012 at 3:13 pm

    And it/they will keep coming until the border is closed. We get it! Why doesn’t our government get it???!!! Perhaps they are part of the problem.

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  7. Nina Smith says:
    August 16, 2012 at 3:17 pm

    Government is the problem.

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  8. Chris O' Donnell says:
    August 16, 2012 at 3:21 pm

    Good job y’all!! Please stay safe and use live ammo. NOT bean bags! Yeah right the border is safe my butt!

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  9. Carole Hughes Millay says:
    August 16, 2012 at 3:27 pm

    send napalatano down there she would scare them away

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  10. Rynee Clarke says:
    August 16, 2012 at 3:33 pm

    Good Job!! Wonder how much more could be interdicted if we had 10,000 more officers with military backgrounds on the ground?!?

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  11. Jeanette Utley says:
    August 16, 2012 at 4:01 pm

    If we could get Americans to quit all the drugs those cartells would not have a market in the US…

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  12. Marianne Fox-Schenk says:
    August 16, 2012 at 4:19 pm

    Awesome work Border Patrol Officers!

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  13. Beth Dunnells says:
    August 16, 2012 at 5:59 pm

    keep up the good work

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  14. Janice Collette Guyan Williams says:
    August 16, 2012 at 6:37 pm

    Great job guys,and no Obama, you didn’t do this, don’t try and take credit

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  15. Brian Wilkins says:
    August 16, 2012 at 7:07 pm

    Burn them and the filth that they got caught with!

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  16. Carolyn Reed Strouhal says:
    August 16, 2012 at 7:37 pm

    Thnak you for keeping all that narcotics out of America.

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