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« Law enforcement officers are on alert as drug smugglers try to use the post office holiday rush to get their goods in the mail.
"The amount of volume that's going through the postal system right now would make it easier for certain packages to get through," one Cameron County investigator said.
He and his partner do not want to be identified. They are undercover at the Los Ebanos Post Office in Brownsville. They're trying to detect drug traffickers.
"People want money... They need money to buy gifts," one investigator said. More than 54,000 pounds of marijuana alone were seized by Cameron County sheriff deputies as part of a two-year federal grant that's set to expire in December.
The department will lose a dozen deputies who solely work drug trafficking cases which include narcotics through the mail. Manpower is the biggest set back for most agencies who work these types of cases. The investigators admit they're outnumbered. But the game of cat and mouse can tip in their favor with extensive training. Officers don't want to tip off dope runners as to what key indicators they look for, but say one red flag is when people purchase empty mailing boxes.
more http://www.valleycentral.com/news/story.aspx?id=690341
"The amount of volume that's going through the postal system right now would make it easier for certain packages to get through," one Cameron County investigator said.
He and his partner do not want to be identified. They are undercover at the Los Ebanos Post Office in Brownsville. They're trying to detect drug traffickers.
"People want money... They need money to buy gifts," one investigator said. More than 54,000 pounds of marijuana alone were seized by Cameron County sheriff deputies as part of a two-year federal grant that's set to expire in December.
The department will lose a dozen deputies who solely work drug trafficking cases which include narcotics through the mail. Manpower is the biggest set back for most agencies who work these types of cases. The investigators admit they're outnumbered. But the game of cat and mouse can tip in their favor with extensive training. Officers don't want to tip off dope runners as to what key indicators they look for, but say one red flag is when people purchase empty mailing boxes.
more http://www.valleycentral.com/news/story.aspx?id=690341
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