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• Officials: Four arrested after Wash.-B.C. border scuffle

  April 3, 2013 in Region SUMAS, Wash. — Four people were in custody Wednesday after what officials described as a foiled drug smuggling run across Washington state’s border with Canada. 4

• Owner of Rivera plane denies drug connections

  December 15, 2012 in Nation/World PHOENIX (AP) — The man who runs the business that owns a luxury jet that crashed and killed Latin music star Jenni Rivera says he has never been involved in …

• Family of slain Border Patrol agent sues officials

  December 14, 2012 in Nation/World PHOENIX (AP) — The family of a slain Border Patrol agent has sued federal officials over the botched “Fast and Furious” gun operation. Agent Brian Terry was mortally wounded on …

• Feds: 4 Texas officers guarded cocaine shipments

  December 14, 2012 in Nation/World McALLEN, Texas (AP) — Three South Texas lawmen including the son of a prominent county sheriff will likely spend the weekend in custody on charges accusing them and another officer …

• 4 Texas officers accused of helping move cocaine

  December 13, 2012 in Nation/World McALLEN, Texas (AP) — Federal prosecutors announced charges Thursday against four officers from a South Texas anti-drug task force who they say took thousands of dollars in bribes to guard … 2

• Fast and Furious gun buyer sentenced to prison

  December 12, 2012 in Nation/World PHOENIX (AP) — A man who purchased two rifles found at the scene of the fatal shooting of a Border Patrol agent north of the U.S.-Mexico border was sentenced Wednesday …

• Govt outlines HSBC ties to drug money laundering

  December 11, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — British bank HSBC violated the Bank Secrecy Act in connection with the laundering of money from narcotics drug traffickers in Mexico and intentionally allowed prohibited transactions with …

• Famed architect gets 6 months for drug smuggling

  December 10, 2012 in Nation/World SAN DIEGO (AP) — An acclaimed architect was sentenced Monday to six months in prison for hiding nearly 13 pounds of cocaine in his minivan’s battery before he tried to …

• Famed architect to be sentenced for drug smuggling

  December 10, 2012 in Nation/World SAN DIEGO (AP) — Eugenio Velazquez is not a typical courier busted for smuggling drugs on the U.S.-Mexico border. The acclaimed architect will be sentenced Monday for trying to bring …

• Tijuana architect was an unlikely drug courier

  December 9, 2012 in Nation/World SAN DIEGO (AP) — Eugenio Velazquez doesn’t fit the mold of the down-on-his luck, uneducated, underemployed courier who ferries drugs to the U.S. for Mexican drug cartels. The dual citizen …

• Gypsies take curious route through US to asylum

  December 6, 2012 in Nation/World DERBY LINE, Vermont (AP) — A minivan with California license plates and a dozen passengers zipped across the border between Vermont and Quebec in October, heading north in a southbound …

• Border Patrol agent arrested in smuggling probe

  December 4, 2012 in Nation/World PHOENIX (AP) — A U.S. Border Patrol agent has been arrested after authorities say he used his patrol vehicle to smuggle drugs while on duty in southwest Arizona, according to …

• Coast Guard death after confrontation off CA coast

  December 4, 2012 in Nation/World SAN DIEGO (AP) — Drug smugglers from Mexico have been creeping farther north along the California coast in an attempt to evade authorities, and it appears the cat-and-mouse game was …

• California sea smuggling claims Coast Guard life

  December 3, 2012 in Nation/World SAN DIEGO (AP) — The killing of a U.S. Coast Guardsman whose crew was chasing a vessel suspected of being laden with drugs appears to be the latest example of …

• Dinosaur skull seized from Wyoming home

  December 3, 2012 in Nation/World CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A federal Homeland Security Department official says a dinosaur skull seized from a Wyoming home is related to an investigation into fossil smuggling from Mongolia. Louis …

• Coast Guardsman dies when boat rammed off Calif

  December 3, 2012 in Nation/World MARINA DEL REY, Calif. (AP) — A suspected smuggling vessel rammed a U.S. Coast Guard chase boat during a counter-drug operation off the California coast, killing one Coast Guardsman and …

• Coast Guard member dies when boat rammed off Calif

  December 3, 2012 in Nation/World VENTURA, Calif. (AP) — A suspected smuggling vessel rammed a U.S. Coast Guard chase boat during a counter-drug operation off the California coast, killing one Coast Guard member and injuring … 1

• Smugglers’ SUV gets stuck atop Calif. border fence

  October 31, 2012 in Nation/World YUMA, Ariz. (AP) — Suspected smugglers who tried to use ramps to drive an SUV over a 14-foot-tall border fence had to abandon their plan when the Jeep became stuck …

• Teen who helped run OH drug ring faces sentencing

  October 22, 2012 in Nation/World LEBANON, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio teenager considered by authorities to be one of the most prolific drug dealers in the Cincinnati area is to be sentenced in a juvenile …

• Union: Border agents opened fire on each other

  October 8, 2012 in Nation/World PHOENIX (AP) — The head of the U.S. Border Patrol agents’ union says the agent killed last week in a shooting in southern Arizona apparently opened fire on two colleagues …

• Union: Border agents opened fire on each other

  October 7, 2012 in Nation/World PHOENIX (AP) — The U.S. Border Patrol agent killed last week in a shooting in southern Arizona apparently opened fire on two fellow agents thinking they were armed smugglers and … 1

• FBI: Strong signs border death was friendly fire

  October 6, 2012 in Nation/World PHOENIX (AP) — Friendly fire likely was to blame in a shooting near the Arizona-Mexico line that killed one federal agent and wounded another, the FBI said, noting the investigation …

• FBI: Friendly fire likely in border shootings

  October 5, 2012 in Nation/World PHOENIX (AP) — A preliminary investigation has found friendly fire likely was to blame in a shooting that killed one federal agent and wounded another along the Arizona-Mexico border, the …

• Union boss: Friendly fire possibility in shooting

  October 5, 2012 in Nation/World PHOENIX (AP) — The shooting of two U.S. Border Patrol agents near the Arizona-Mexico border may have been a case of friendly fire, a union chief for border agents and … 1

• Wounded border agent released from hospital

  October 3, 2012 in Nation/World NACO, Ariz. (AP) — Investigators were scouring a rugged area near the U.S.-Mexico line looking for evidence in the fatal shooting of a Border Patrol agent. Nicholas Ivie and a …

• Border Patrol agent shot, killed on duty in Ariz.

  October 3, 2012 in Nation/World NACO, Ariz. (AP) — Investigators were scouring a rugged area near the U.S.-Mexico line looking for evidence in the fatal shooting of a Border Patrol agent. Nicholas Ivie and a …

• Border Patrol agent shot, killed on duty in Ariz.

  October 2, 2012 in Nation/World NACO, Ariz. (AP) — A Border Patrol agent was shot to death Tuesday in Arizona near the U.S.-Mexico line, the first fatal shooting of an agent since a deadly 2010 … 5

• Border Patrol agent shot, killed on patrol in Ariz

  October 2, 2012 in Nation/World BISBEE, Ariz. (AP) — A Border Patrol agent was shot to death Tuesday in Arizona near the U.S.-Mexico line, the first fatal shooting of an agent since a deadly 2010 …

• Police chief resigns, NM force has gone to the dog

  September 27, 2012 in Nation/World VAUGHN, N.M. (AP) — A drug-sniffing dog now is the only certified member of the police force in the small eastern New Mexico town of Vaughn. Police Chief Ernest “Chris” …

• Police chief resigns, NM force has gone to the dog

  September 26, 2012 in Nation/World VAUGHN, N.M. (AP) — The police chief of the small eastern New Mexico town of Vaughn resigned Wednesday, leaving the town with just one certified member on its police force …

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