KXO RADIO - Calexico - Border Patrol Seizes Over 1,000 Pounds of Marijuana

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Calexico - Border Patrol Seizes Over 1,000 Pounds of Marijuana

Todays is : Thursday, 08 January 2009

Written by Carroll Buckley
Saturday, 08 December 2007
Calexico, California - U. S. Customs and Border Protection Border Patrol agents nabbed 1,015. pounds of Marijuana valued at over $810,000 Friday night. Border Patrol agents seized a pick-up truck that was abandoned after it was damaged trying to cross over an Imperial Irrigation District drop bridge on the All-American Canal about 27 miles east of Calexico.Smugglers cut the locks off a gate on the south of the crossing then drove head-on into the gate on the north end of the bridge significantly damaging the pick-up. The smugglers abandoned the vehicle and the drugs.Investigation at the scene led Border Patrol agents to believe that two other full size vehicles and an All Terrain Vehicle also made an illegal entry into the U.S. before fleeing back to Mexico. The seized pick-up contained 1,015 pounds of marijuana with a street value of over $812,000. The vehicle and marijuana were turned over to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. This was the second major drug seizure by the El Centro Sector Border Patrol this week. On December 2, 2008, Border Patrol Agents working the Highway 86 checkpoint seized 89.1 pounds of cocaine with an estimated value of ever $2,800,000.