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SUNDAY'S CHILD
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Just in time for the Winter Olympics, CBS 7’s Tatum Hubbard hit the ice with a very athletic 15-year-old for a little "speed skating."
Just in time for the Winter Olympics, CBS 7’s Tatum Hubbard hit the ice with a very athletic 15-year-old for a little "speed skating."
Alpine Border Patrol Agents Seize Over 1,700 Pounds of Marijuana 10/26/09
October 26, 2009
Alpine, Texas - Agents of the Alpine Border Patrol Station seized over 1,700 pounds of marijuana in two separate seizures late last week.
About 2:30 Friday morning, a Border Patrol agent traveling back to Alpine noticed vehicle lights on a ranch road 13 miles west of Marathon, Texas. After a brief search, agents pulled over a vehicle on Highway 90 that contained 1,581 pounds of marijuana. The 2004 Ford F-350 pickup was driven by a U.S. Citizen from Sunray in the Texas panhandle.
The marijuana has a street value of $1,265,336.
On Thursday morning, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection helicopter from the Alpine Air and Marine Branch found four men trying to hide in a field about four miles northeast of Marathon. Border Patrol agents arrested the four, all citizens of Mexico. A search of the area where the four were hiding resulted in the discovery of three sugar sacks filled with marijuana. The agents were assisted in the search by a Border Patrol K-9 team. The sacks contained 133 pounds of marijuana with a street value of over $107,000.
The smugglers, the drugs and the vehicle were turned over to the Drug Enforcement Administration in both cases.
Customs and Border Protection is the unified border agency within the Department of Homeland Security charged with the management, control and protection of our nation's borders at and between the official ports of entry. CBP is charged with keeping terrorists and terrorist weapons out of the country while enforcing hundreds of U.S. laws.
