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Agents with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) here are increasingly on the hunt for a nefarious drug wreaking havoc across the U.S., inspecting cars top to bottom as smugglers try to bring heroin across the border.
DEA figures show a four-fold increase in heroin seizures along the southwest border since 2008, with 4,653 pounds being confiscated last year.
Most of it was hidden in cars and trucks driven across the nearly 2,000-mile-long border in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.
“You can hide the heroin anywhere from bumper to bumper, roof to floor and anywhere in between,” said CBP Port Director Lupe Ramirez.
Increasingly, agents are also seeing heroin being hand-carried from Mexico in backpacks across rugged deserts and remote American ranchland.
“We have had heroin strapped to a child, heroin strapped to a grandmother, heroin in a stroller, heroin in a car seat,” Ramirez said.
cont at
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/am...how-heroin-flows-over-border-suburbia-n196911
DEA figures show a four-fold increase in heroin seizures along the southwest border since 2008, with 4,653 pounds being confiscated last year.
Most of it was hidden in cars and trucks driven across the nearly 2,000-mile-long border in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.
“You can hide the heroin anywhere from bumper to bumper, roof to floor and anywhere in between,” said CBP Port Director Lupe Ramirez.
Increasingly, agents are also seeing heroin being hand-carried from Mexico in backpacks across rugged deserts and remote American ranchland.
“We have had heroin strapped to a child, heroin strapped to a grandmother, heroin in a stroller, heroin in a car seat,” Ramirez said.
cont at
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/am...how-heroin-flows-over-border-suburbia-n196911