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Drugs flow through S. Texas
The 53-year-old grandmother and her co-worker pulled up to the waiting Border Patrol agents as they had done several times before, carrying the Bible they hoped would protect the 73 pounds of marijuana sitting in a hidden compartment of their sedan.
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Drug counselor knows his subject personally
Gary Leach was 11 when he first went into the woods near his posh Houston home to sniff glue. Soon after, his older brother told him that if he wanted to get high he should just smoke pot.
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Drug sentencing minimums questioned
As in all federal drug sentencing, there will be little leeway for a judge to determine how many years Gabriel Rolando Rodriguez will spend in prison.
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Drug smuggling returns to normal level after attacks brought lull
Drug smuggling in South Texas has returned to pre-Sept. 11 levels after an initial two-week lull, even as law enforcement groups like U.S. Customs and the Coast Guard shift their focus from trafficking to anti-terrorism.
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An undated file photograph published in the Tuesday, Jan. 16, 1996 issue of the Mexico City daily, Reforma, shows recently arrested drug lord Juan Garcia Abrego, top right, with the former head of the Gulf Cartel, Juan Nepomuceno Guerra, left,his uncle, who was jailed in 1991.
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Rebirth of the Gulf cartel
As the blistering June sun beat down on downtown Matamoros, more than a dozen men wearing black masks and carrying submachine guns surrounded the Tamaulipas State Prison.
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Doctor: City high in drug abuse
When David E. Blanchard came to Corpus Christi
three years ago to become the chief of the emergency room at
Christus Spohn Hospital Memorial, he was a 20-year veteran,
having worked at hospitals in Chicago, Arizona and Victoria.
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David Pellerin/Caller-Times
Fireman Apprentice, James Campos keeps on eye on a private vessel while Petty Officer Kenneth Jenks pilots the boarding craft in the Gulf of Mexico. Several USCG officers are on board inspecting the vessel.
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Funding hobbles
drug war
Under galaxies of stars, the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Key Biscayne skimmed along the invisible line separating Mexican water from that of the United States, looking for drug runners, as it does every night that it patrols.
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Blanket radar makes trafficking drugs by air hard in S. Texas
The biggest seizure in maritime history began with a U.S. Customs flight out of Naval Air Station Corpus Christi.
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Mother says 'tough love' the only way to deal with a child's drug abuse
Connie Sengler's son Joey would have been 34 last week. Instead of celebrating, she commemorated the fourth year since his death.
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Rey Escamilla, deputy with the Jim Wells County Sheriff's Department, leads the nation in money seizures on highways. Here is standing in front of his Sheriff's Dept. truck, just outside of Alice.
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Drug funds build jails
Sgt. Ray Escamilla Jrcq. makes sure the Jim Wells County Sheriff's
Department gets its cut of action from the South Texas drug pipeline that
passes through the county on U.S. Highway 281.
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The money - lots of it - comes south after the drugs go north
For virtually each load of cocaine and marijuana sent north, a bundle of
cash comes back down to the Rio Grande Valley and Mexico.
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Narcotics
searches
divisive
Drug interdiction officers searching area highways for drugs and drug money
can't pull a driver over without a traffic violation, or the case could
easily be thrown out of court.
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Local treatment facilities can't serve all who need their help
Cheryl Whitehead has seen hundreds of drug addicts pass through the door
of Charlie's Place, an in-patient rehabilitation center for the indigent.
Whitehead, the facility's executive director, says her patients don't look
for help because they fear arrest getting arrested or stiff drug sentences.
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