[USA] Law enforcement officials search holiday mail for illegal drugs

« 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.

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What a waste of time and money.

Another story about the law going out of their way to press on our freedoms.

Lol, the officers/agents involved think they're doing such an honorary service to their community.. Most people those drugs are being sent to I bet are just guys who have to struggle to put food on the table, and when they get arrested and imprisoned their family will be even more desperate since they're now behind bars and can't provide for them.. Then they go to the bar with their cop buddies, get shit faced and go home and harass their wife and kids.

they will be lucky to find half of 1% of the drugs getting sent. VERY lucky.

This is another failure to protect and serve.

This doesn't take into account the tons of research chemicals that get mailed out everyday that they can't touch. I wonder what their opininion is on those and how as soon as they ban one, an analogue or similar chemical is mass produced/distributed.

He and his partner do not want to be identified. They are undercover at the Los Ebanos Post Office in Brownsville

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Great job at not blowing anybodys cover. ¬_¬