AZMEX UPDATE 26 FEB 2018
Border Patrol Agents busts 18-year-old suspected of smuggling meth
Posted: Feb 26, 2018 8:42 PM MST
Updated: Feb 26, 2018 8:46 PM MST
Written By John Overall.
http://www.kvoa.com/story/37597824/border-patrol-agents-bust-18-year-old-suspected-of-smuggling-meth
TUCSON - An 18-year-old U.S. citizen was arrested at the I-19 immigration checkpoint after Border Patrol agents found nearly 60 pounds of methamphetamine in the teenager's Nissan Altima.
Agents conducted a secondary inspection after a Border Patrol canine alerted to an odor it was trained to detect.
Agents found 50 packages of meth worth more than $150,000 inside the vehicle.
The teenager was arrested for narcotics smuggling and agents seized the drugs and vehicle.
Also: https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/local-media-release/border-patrol-agents-nab-nogales-teen-smuggling-meth
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Keeping America Safe: Nogales CBP Officers Seize 42 Pounds of Cocaine at Arizona Port of Entry
Release Date: February 26, 2018
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/local-media-release/keeping-america-safe-nogales-cbp-officers-seize-42-pounds-cocaine
TUCSON, Ariz. –U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at Arizona's Port of Nogales apprehended a 27-year-old Mexican man after he attempted to smuggle 42 pounds of cocaine into the U.S. from Mexico February 22.
Officers working at the Dennis DeConcini Crossing Thursday referred the man's 2014 Mitsubishi Lancer to secondary inspection where a CBP canine alerted to an odor it was trained to detect and imaging revealed anomalies in the vehicle. Officers removed 17 packages from the fuel tank, with an estimated street value of $ $475,650.00.
The man was arrested and the vehicle and drugs were seized. He has been turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations.
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Note: This story gets stranger all the time.
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The confiscation was not in Amphenol
manuel POSTED ON 02-26-2018 0 1.2K Views 0
Bernardo Morales
http://nuevodia.com.mx/2018/02/26/no-fue-en-amphenol-el-decomiso/
Nuevo Día / Nogales, Sonora
Federal authorities confirmed yesterday that the seizure of four tons of marijuana located in an industrial warehouse in this city, was not in the company Amphenol or subsidiaries, as mentioned unofficially.
In a statement, the Secretariat of National Defense, (Sedena), reported through the II Military Region and 45th. Zona Militar, "which informs public opinion that they located 440 packages with a green grass with the characteristics of marijuana, with an approximate weight of four, inside a factory warehouse in the Municipality of Nogales, Sonora. tons 279.60 kilograms ".
The events took place on Friday, February 23, when the federal authorities received an anonymous report, so a joint operation was carried out between the Mexican Army and the Federal Police, and the location of the drug was located in a factory located west of the city. , facilities that are completely unrelated to the company Amphenol.
In the informative part of the operation, no detainees were reported.
Also: http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=107016
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Amphenol denys seizure at its facilities
Details Published on Monday February 26, 2018,
Written by Marco A. Flores
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=107016
Nogales, Son
The company Amphenol denys that the confiscation of four tons of marijuana had been in its facilities, as published last Saturday in our pages.
While the Association of Maquiladoras of Sonora (AMS) Index Nogales declined to comment or make statements about it, waiting for the same company where the discovery was made.
The person in charge of the association, Genaro Vecerra Álvarez, said that for this type of reactions it was preferable that they were made by the companies mentioned.
"I do not know where they get data to correct information in some media, we do not know if the four tons were in a maquiladora or where, or who are those four tons," said the director of the AMS. However, he expressed confidence that any industrial plant will make some public clarification in this regard.
As it is remembered, last Saturday it was announced that more than four tons of marijuana were confiscated by elements of the Mexican Army and agents of the Federal Police, inside a maquiladora located in the Nogales Industrial Park.
According to an official bulletin of the Secretariat of National Defense (Sedena), through the Commanders of the II Military Region and 45th Military Zone, it was announced that the military personnel in coordination with the Federal Police, through a citizen complaint located the drug inside a warehouse of a factory.
There were altogether 440 packages of a dry green grass with the characteristics of marijuana weighing approximately 4 tons with 279.60 kilograms, according to the official statement.
For the aforementioned facts, military personnel in coordination with said authorities, who, in their capacity as first respondents, proceeded to transfer the drugs to the facilities of the corresponding Federal Public Ministry Agent.
Days prior to Saturday, when the confiscation information was released, military personnel and the Federal Police were sighted in an operation carried out in the Amphenol parking lot, in the "Maya" building, and the unofficial version was that it was of a drill.
On the part of the Sedena or other authority, until now, they have not made known in which maquiladora the drug was located.
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