A tractor-trailer declared as carrying leeks entered Texas through the Pharr International Bridge. CBP officers found 395 packages of suspected methamphetamine worth $10.75 million.
Operation Hard Ball charged 37 defendants as investigators uncovered cocaine thefts and cross-border drug networks using long-haul trucks and subcontracted logistics.
CBP officers seized 126.5 kilograms of suspected cocaine during a commercial vehicle inspection at the Hidalgo Port of Entry. Homeland Security Investigations has opened a criminal investigation following the June 24 seizure.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers wants to use AI and other technologies to improve cargo screening that targets fentanyl at border crossings.
Oleanvine Pickering-Mayard, director at the British Virgin Islands Port Authority, was sentenced to more than nine years in prison on Thursday for her participation in a scheme to deliver cocaine from the British Virgin Islands to the U.S.
Two truckers working for the same Canadian company were arrested four months apart after separate seizures of cocaine and meth in Michigan.
A Louisiana trucker was recently sentenced to nearly six years in prison for drug trafficking. Rusty Ross Honore received a PPP loan two months after he was arrested by the feds in Dec. 2020.
A trucker could face life in prison after being charged with trafficking almost 200 pounds of meth, likely worth millions of dollars, from the U.S. to Canada.
Parent company KLM says it is cooperating with authorities.
Court indicts a few UPS employees for drug trafficking; EU commercial vehicle registrations decline; pop-up electric charging stations come up in Oxford.
Three Chinese businessmen and their companies involved in the manufacture and export of deadly fentanyl have been designated as violators of the Kingpin Act.
