Badges - TV truck a ruse for huge pot load
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- Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:42:49 -0500
TV truck a ruse for huge pot load
By Lynn Brezosky
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Thursday, April 28, 2011
BROWNSVILLE ? Rio Grande City-based Border Patrol
agents seized nearly 3,000 pounds of marijuana
from a ?cloned? satellite television van, Customs and Border Protection said.
CBP said intelligence from the High Intensity
Drug Trafficking Areas task force alerted agents
to the use of vehicles with fake company logos to
move drugs. In this case, the van emerging from a
brushy area near the Rio Grande appeared to be a
Dish Network truck. Dish Network, based in
Englewood, Colo., provides entertainment services to 14.1 million customers.
An agent who decided to check the vehicle out
detected a strong smell of marijuana thanks to
the 100 bundles of marijuana inside with an
estimated street value of $2.3 million.
The driver was arrested but not immediately identified.
The seizure occurred April 20 near La Casita,
about six miles east of Rio Grande City.
Read more:
http://www.mysanantonio.com/default/article/TV-truck-a-ruse-for-huge-pot-load-1354912.php#ixzz1KqfjiKO9
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