AZMEX UPDATE 23-4-13

AZMEX UPDATE 23 APR 2013

Note: No names or other info given, usually from one of the media
protected groups.

Phoenix police find handcuffed, hooded man in truck
By Associated Press
Originally published: Apr 23, 2013 - 12:33 pm
http://www.ktar.com/22/1629167/Phoenix-police-find-handcuffed-hooded-
man-in-truck

PHOENIX -- Phoenix police are trying to sort out how and why a man
came to be handcuffed and with a bag over his head in the bed of a
stolen pickup truck.

Police said a resident of a mobile home park reported seeing the man
in the truck bed late Monday night.

The truck's driver bolted from the vehicle when police stopped it as
it was leaving the mobile home park but he was found later in a
nearby shed.
A passenger also was taken into custody as police found several guns
in the truck.

Lt. Greg Berghorst said the 39-year-old handcuffed man said he was
walking when somebody grabbed him and put him in the truck.

Police didn't immediately release the names of the two men taken into
custody.

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Note: compared with AZMEX ACTIVITY report for same timeframe.

Agents nab 8 suspected smugglers, seize 355 pounds of pot
April 23, 2013 3:09 PM
FROM STAFF REPORTS

Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents from the Wellton Station arrested
eight suspected drug smugglers and seized about 355 pounds of
marijuana Monday. Border Patrol officials estimated the pot was worth
about $177,500.

The agents were patrolling south of the Interstate 8 Palomas exit
when they discovered footprints and tracked them for about a half
mile until they came upon a group of backpackers hiding in heavy brush.

The group, six Mexican citizens and two Honduran citizens, had
crossed through the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge as they
made their way north, allegedly hauling the marijuana with them as
they walked.

The alleged smugglers and the marijuana were turned over to the
Maricopa County Sheriff's Office.

Read more: http://www.yumasun.com/articles/agents-87024-smugglers-
marijuana.html#ixzz2RPLxepqe

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