All Entries Tagged With: "cocaine"
Hair Follicle Drug Testing for Trucking Industry
By Sandy Long – / N2N / – There has been a debate going on among trucking companies for several years over whether hair follicle drug testing should be adapted industry wide instead of the usual urine testing. Some companies such as Schneider and CREngland have adapted hair follicle testing as pre-employment and random testing [...]
CBP Seizes 20 Pounds of Ecstasy at Canadian Border
Buffalo, N.Y. – / N2N / – U.S. Customs and Border Protection Field Operations today announced the seizure of approximately 20 pounds of methylene-dioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), better known as the club-drug ‘Ecstasy.’ The seizure resulted in the arrest of a Canadian citizen. On July 25, CBP officers encountered Anthony Ighodaro, a 29-year-old Canadian citizen from Mississauga, [...]
CBP Siezes $1.5 Million in Drugs at U.S. – Mexico Border
Hidalgo, Texas – / N2N / – U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers working at the Hidalgo International Bridge seized 44.5 pounds of cocaine and 9 pounds of methamphetamine in two separate and unrelated enforcement actions. The cocaine was valued at $1.4 million and the methamphetamine at $162,000. On July 24, 2010, CBP officers working [...]
$2 Million of Cocaine Stashed in Shipping Container
Wilmington, Del., – / N2N / – Customs and Border Protection officers seized about 63 pounds of cocaine, with an estimated street value of up to $2 million, which they discovered concealed in the ventilation system of a refrigerated shipping container at the Port of Wilmington, Del., on June 6. CBP tactical operations officers from [...]
Project Deliverance = 74 Tons of Illegal Drugs & 2,200 Arrests
WASHINGTON – / N2N /- Assistant Secretary John Morton of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Attorney General Eric Holder, acting Administrator Michele M. Leonhart of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and Assistant Director Kevin L. Perkins of the FBI’s Criminal Investigative Division announced the arrest of more than 2,200 individuals on narcotics-related charges [...]
Top 4 Reasons Truck Drivers Use Drugs
DAYTONA, FL, – / N2N / – When you drive on America’s highways, you expect the drivers around you to follow the rules and drive as safely as you do. Unfortunately, in all too many cases, other drivers are under the influence of chemical substances to make help them stay alert. Substance use and trucking [...]
Port Officers Find Cocaine Hidden in VW Beetle
- / N2N / – U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers working at the Calexico downtown port of entry discovered 40 pounds of cocaine hidden inside the spare tire and rear tire wells of a blue 2000 Volkswagen Beetle. The incident occurred on Wednesday, January 27, at about 10 a.m. when a CBP officer conducting [...]
Texas Border Patrol More Than $1 Million in Cocaine
Granjeno, Texas – U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the McAllen station seized 36 pounds of cocaine early this morning. Border Patrol agents were alerted to suspicious activity along the banks of the Rio Grande, south of Granjeno, by an agent operating a remote video surveillance system. Approximately six individuals were seen emerging from the [...]
CBP Agents Seize $4 Million in Cocaine Hidden in Sailboat
Miami – / N2N / – U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents discovered 335 kilograms of cocaine hidden in a secret compartment on a sailing vessel. The drugs have an estimated value of more than $4 million. A U.S. Customs and Border Protection Marine Unit, in conjunction with Ft. Lauderdale police and the Broward County [...]
CBP Seizes Cocaine and Marijuana
Hidalgo/Pharr, Texas – / N2N / – U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers working at the Hidalgo/Pharr, Texas port of entry seized approximately 158 pounds of cocaine and 41 pounds of marijuana in two separate, unrelated enforcement actions this weekend. The combined estimated street value of drugs seized is close to $5.1 million. On December [...]
Border Patrol Agents Seize Cash, Cocaine
Blythe, California – / N2N / – U.S. Border Patrol agents from the Blythe Station seized more than $80,000 in cash and two pounds of cocaine in separate smuggling attempts over the weekend. Border Patrol agents arrested two individuals traveling in a 2008 Gray Chrysler 300. During the vehicle stop, a K-9 team alerted to [...]
CBP Siezes $1.4 Million of Cocaine
San Luis, Ariz. – / N2N / – U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers enforcement efforts resulted in the seizure of more than 55 pounds of Cocaine and the arrest of a 40-year-old man just yesterday. On December 9, CBP officers while processing travelers and conducting routine inspections encountered the U.S. citizen and escorted him [...]
Which Came 1st – The Chicken or the Cocaine?
Sterling, VA – / N2N / – While philosophers continue to ponder the age-old question of whether the chicken or the egg came first, Customs and Border Protection officers at Dulles International Airport focused more on what exactly was inside the chicken. What they found, when they closely inspected a fully-cooked chicken early Saturday morning, [...]
