DRUG SEIZURES

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Forensic Psychology is a podcast that provides an illuminating window
into the workings of the criminal mind. Now here's your host,
doctor Carlos Well.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
The border has been pretty busy lately, but not with
people trying to cross, but people trying to take drugs across.
CBP officer sees more than ten dollars in liquid myth.
On's a major hotspot for illegal crossings. Ego Passes gradually
becoming a hotspot for illegal narcotics. On April twenty eth,

(00:53):
Border patrol officers of the Ego pass Port of Entry
in Texas sees nearly eleven hundred pounds of liquid myth
valued over ten million. I don't think it's becoming a
hotspot for illegal and narcotics. I think now the agents
have been freed up or the officers have been freed
up from dealing with the illegal crossings and now can
focus on the drug. So I think you're actually catching

(01:14):
a lot of it, because we don't really know how
much we're missing in the sense of how much is
coming into the US, but we do know is how
much we catch, So I'm assuming this is what's happening.
The seizer took place at the Ego Pass International Bridge
when at forty six year old female Mexican citizen driving
a two thousand dollars pickup was flagged for a secondary

(01:34):
ex inspection. Using a non intrusive inspection system, officers discover
the drugs hiding in an external fuel tank. The narcotics
and vehicle were confiscated and the drivers arrested by HSI
and another one massive operation called Operation Tidal Wave in
Florida ICE. In Florida law enforcement made eight hundred arrests

(01:59):
in four days, including a Colombian murderer MS thirteen and
eighteen Street members and a Russian with Interpol red notice
from manslaughter. The Russian was an illegal alien who was
again who had an Interpol Red notice out of Russia
for vehicular manslaughter. A Honduran illegal alien and known or
suspected terrorists member the eighteenth Street Gang was also arrested.

(02:22):
That happened down there in Florida. The Mexican National Guard
and Army members detained two Americans in New Mexico, over
two kilometers from the US Mexico border, mistakenly believing they
were in Mexico, becoming a twenty nineteen incident where Mexican
soldiers beefly detained US troops due to border confusion. So

(02:43):
interesting story there, So we continue our story. Texas Attorney
General specialist seized over two hundred and sixty pounds of
pork hidden in a vehicle attempting US entry. That happened
a few days ago, so that was it's a lot
of pork. Another one over in Port of Oakland sees

(03:05):
fifty two pieces of Major Leagues baseball sports jerseys with
an estimated value of thirteen thousand. They were all fake merchandise,
so you can see a lot of stuff as trying
to come through. Another bust in South Texas of nine
million dollars worth of meth. The shipmen manifested as chilte,
also known as vegetable pair. It was a pear shaped

(03:27):
squashed native to Mexico, but it contained three thousand packages
of math. And another bust in San Diego, fifty one
pounds of meth were found in a spare tire during
a vehicle inspection. So at meth has really kicked up.
I'm not seeing a whole lot of cocaine and marijuana,
at least they haven't reported that that I've seen right now,

(03:50):
doesn't mean it hasn't been just haven't seen it reported,
but definitely seeing a humongous impact uptick in meth. Another one,
in a single inspecttion, border patrol agents and the canine
team sees meth bundles hidden inside an SUV with over
sixty cellophane wrap bundles of drugs we're hidden as well
throughout the vehicle. Another catch of the day officer in

(04:15):
tuition led to the seizure of fifty four thousand pills
of fetnol, about seventy pounds of methamphetamine, and thirteen pounds
of cocaine, all in Nogallas, Arizona. So there's a re
update of what's happening at the border.