Border agents from the Casa Grande Station found a truck containing about 3,300 pounds of marijuana Monday morning near the checkpoint on Federal Route 15.According to Border Agent Colleen Agle, the weed was found when agents responded to suspected illegal activity in the area south of the Federal Route 15…
While you may have been busy grilling burgers over Memorial Day weekend, Border Patrol agents in southern Arizona were on the prowl for weed coming across the border, which, of course, they found in huge quantities. Over the long weekend, agents seized more than 4,100 pounds of marijuana in four separate busts…
Border Patrol agents from the Ajo Station seized more weed in the last three days than Cheech & Chong could’ve smoked in their heyday times 10. In the last 72 hours, agents seized 3,000 pounds of weed, in three separate incidents, near the U.S./ Mexico border south of Tucson and, although…
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol announced yesterday that between October 1, 2009 and April 31, it seized more than 622,000 pounds of weed. That was only in the Tucson sector. With Border Patrol agents seemingly waging war on weed — including three busts netting more than 1,600 pounds over the weekend — you might think finding someone…
U.S. Border Patrol agents in Arizona have been pretty busy in their war-against-weed, nabbing more than 1,600 pounds of the icky in three separate busts last weekend.The first of the weekend’s three big busts happened Friday afternoon when agents working at a checkpoint on Highway 90 near Wilcox found about…
Border Patrol agents made another substantial weed bust yesterday, and as well as becoming the new owners of hundreds of pounds of weed, agents got some sweet, new toys out of the deal, too.Agents on patrol near Three Points noticed some ATV tracks in a remote section of the desert.The…
U.S. Border Patrol agents in the Tucson Sector seized more than 1,300 pounds of marijuana during four separate vehicle interdictions in the past 24 hours, including one stop where the suspects crashed their weed-filled truck into the border fence to evade capture.The suspects, according to USBP spokesman Eric Cantu, got…
DPS That’s what 480 pounds of weed looks like. Arizona Department of Public Safety officers made a substantial score last week, when they swiped more than 450 pounds of weed from a trucker from Georgia…
For some reason, moving weed with trucks full of watermelons is a big hit with drug dealers. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to be a very effective method of transport. For the third time in less than a year, a huge amount of marijuana was found hidden among watermelons in the back of…
