Man caught smuggling bullets, vests to Mexico
A Mexican man was caught trying to smuggle 8,700 rounds of ammunition and 10 bulletproof vests from the United States to Mexico, Customs and Border Protection agents said today.
The seizure occurred Thursday at the Hidalgo-Reynosa International Bridge.
Driver Martin Armando Arredondo Meza, 28, fled from the car he was driving when customs officials began searching it. He tried to run into Mexico but agents and local police caught him.
The ammunition and vests were found in the car trunk.
Arredondo Meza was arrested on federal charges of illegal export of war materials and unlicensed export of defense articles on the U.S. munitions list.
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Woman caught smuggling $119,912 to Mexico
A 25-year-old Donna woman was caught trying to cross into Mexico with nearly $120,000 under her clothes, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials said Thursday.
Aurora Garcia was arrested on federal charges of bulk cash smuggling Wednesday after agents at the Hidalgo international bridge pulled aside the taxi she was in and discovered the cash.
Garcia declared $1,000 but gave a negative declaration for currency in excess of $10,000, weapons, or ammunition.
CBP officers said they noticed discrepancies in Garcia's clothing, which turned out to be bundles of money totaling $119,912.
It is a federal offense not to declare
Police chase naked driver into Mexico
A naked man driving a Chevrolet S-10 pickup led police on a chase to the international border yesterday before leaving the truck and running into Mexico, where he was caught.
The man was first observed parked in an alleyand exposing himself about 12:15 p.m. near Texas Street in North Park. Responding officers tried to stop the truck, but the driver sped off, San Diego police Sgt. Jim Schorr said.
During a police chase, the driver avoided three spike strips set down on roadways by officers at various locations.
On Interstate 5 at Interstate 905, the man
Ariz. man drowns after trying to save niece in Mexico
A Tucson man has lost his life in Mexico after trying to save the life of his 5-year-old niece.
It occurred in the Gulf of California resort city of Puerto Penasco - commonly known as Rocky Point in Arizona.
Police said the little girl was swimming when she was caught by high waves that pulled her out to sea.
Police said her 21-year-old uncle, Steven Rodriguez, jumped into the ocean to save the girl. They said a larger wave tore the girl away from Rodriguez. The girl was carried safely back to shore,
Mexico's most wanted man may be in Guatemala-police
Mexico's most wanted man, drug lord Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, may have entered neighboring Guatemala where police are searching for him, authorities said on Friday.
"We have not yet determined if he is here, but we have evidence that leads us to believe he is inside our territory," Guatemala's anti-drug police chief Adan Castillo told a news conference.
Guzman has been sought in Mexico since he escaped from a high-security jail in 2001. He has engaged in a fierce war with rival drug barons that has killed more than 1,000 people this year.
The United States is
Border agents seize $95,000 from driver going to Mexico
A man faces smuggling charges after officers in Hidalgo confiscated almost 95-thousand dollars from the vehicle he was driving to Mexico.
Customs and Border Protection Monday announced the seizure occurred Friday at the Hidalgo International Bridge.
At the bridge, 42-year-old Benjamin Vargas-Betanacio of Eagle Pass denied having more than $10,000 in cash -- claiming only $500.
But officers noticed oddities in the engine area of the vehicle he was driving and discovered bundles of cash totaling $94,520.
Vargas-Betanacio has been charged with bulk cash smuggling.
It's a federal offense not to declare currency
Police dumbfounded as serial killer stalks Mexico
This much they know: Someone has been murdering older women in Mexico City, strangling them in their homes, pocketing a keepsake and vanishing into the city's streets.
But investigators do not know whether the killer is a man or a woman, whether there is an accomplice or how the victims are chosen.
After two years and at least 24 unsolved murders, they have one fingerprint that matches partial prints from five other cases, a modus operandi and a police sketch of what appears to be a man made up as a woman.
Investigators pieced together much of
Killings spook Mexico City
This much they know: Someone has been murdering older women in Mexico City, strangling them in their homes, pocketing a keepsake and vanishing into the city's streets.
But investigators do not know whether the killer is a man or a woman, whether there is an accomplice or how the victims are chosen.
After two years and at least 24 unsolved murders, they have one fingerprint that matches partial prints from five other cases, a modus operandi and a police sketch of what appears to be a man made up as a woman.
Investigators pieced together much of the killer's
Coyotes Openly Do Business in Mexico
Sidling up to migrants who arrive at the Tijuana airport and cruising the streets in border towns, coyotes in gold chains and dark sunglasses openly find customers for nightly scrambles across the U.S. border.
Mexicos president offered to crack down on smuggling at a recent summit with President Bush. But close to 100 smuggling gangs are still operating, government officials say, in plain sight of Mexican law enforcement.
While drug smugglers are invisible for the most part, people smugglers are visible, working right in front of authorities, said Tijuana border expert Victor Clark, who has
Grouper fight flares in Gulf of Mexico:-
Recreational and commercial fishermen are being pitted against each other by a plan to limit hauls of red grouper in the Gulf of Mexico.
Federal fishery management officials have proposed closing Gulf of Mexico grouper fishing to recreational fishermen, allowing commercial boats to continue their catch, the Christian Science Monitor reported Friday.
Florida state officials have said they do not intend to enforce that ban, since tourists pay $26 million a year to Florida charter boats to fish in the gulf.
The Monitor said recreational fishermen pull in about 18 percent of the 5.3 million pounds of
MEXICO Ex-consul freed in setback for prosecutors
A judge has freed and cleared a former Mexican consul accused of participating in a ring that smuggled hundreds of Lebanese migrants into the United States, another setback for the Mexican attorney general's office.
The release of Imelda Ortiz Abdala, consul to Lebanon from 1999-2001, suggested that Mexican officials may have overreached as they went after a smuggling ring first prosecuted in the U.S.
The attorney general's office, which did not respond to requests for comment, has been embarrassed by bad arrests recently but often has blamed U.S. intelligence.
This month, officials arrested a Mexico City architect
