Further evidence of Arizona’s unsecured southern border
Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne has announced the arrests of 14 of 15 suspected members of a large-scale marijuana and cocaine trafficking organization. This organization has smuggled over 19.1 kilograms of cocaine and 2,952 pounds of marijuana into the United States since December of 2010 with a Tucson street value estimated to be between $2,631,600 and $2,126,400.
This criminal enterprise has been active for more than ten years in smuggling large amounts of marijuana and cocaine into the United States through the Nogales Port of Entry.
“This is yet another in a growing list of examples why the Arizona border with Mexico is not secure,” Horne said. “For this criminal operation to exist for the better part of a decade trafficking millions of dollars worth of poison into Arizona is outrageous and helps to define the critical nature of this problem. The level of violent criminal activity near the border and throughout much of Arizona at large is a direct result of the drug trade, and it simply cannot continue. In the meantime, the policy of the federal government remains to peddle the fiction that the border is as secure as it has ever been. It clearly is not, and I reiterate my call to the administration to do more to address this crisis.”
Agencies working in cooperation with the Drug Enforcement Administration and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations Strike Force are the U.S. Border Patrol, U.S. Marshal’s Service, Nogales Police Department, Tucson Police Department, Department of Public Safety, and the Arizona Attorney General’s Office.
Read more, including the multiple charges included in the indictment here.
Mug shots of those arrested in connection with this organized criminal ring linked to a Mexican drug cartel can be seen here
More fine work by the law enforcement professionals behind this criminal enterprise takedown. Attorney General Tom Horne’s comments tell the whole story about our problematic border. Obama and Napolitano have repeatedly insisted it’s secure. Meanwhile cocaine, heroin, meth, and marijuana are flooding the US and causing untold heartache in American families.
Frankly Speaking-DOPE is what keeps these morons employeed! But HEY! Don’t forget Holder !
What a relief it is to finally have a conservative Republican heading the AG’s Office. Terry Goddard is a committed, lifeline leftie and Obama fan. Good riddance! Before that we were treated to Obama appointee Janet Napolitano.
Wasn’t Mr. Obama just th’ other day HERE IN ARIZONA runnin’ his mouth about how th’ Arizona Border is secure?!?!?
,,,th’ real question is, “How th’ #&!! would he know? Did j-no tell him, or eric holder?
…SPEAKIN’ of eric holder, I wonder if any of HIS errant “fast & (I’m) FURIOUS” guns showed up in this VICTORY BUST for AG Horne…
Just talked with some relatives who live near Portal, Arizona. They say the drug smuggling is worse than it has ever been. That whole area is becoming a corridor for the drug cartels and they have heard of many crimes in the area associated with the drug trade.