Drug Trafficking Southwestern United States

Cocaine and marijuana seizures inside the southwestern U.S. border and along Mexico's Pacific coast have escalated dramatically in the last two years, alarming U.S. law enforcement authorities, who say Mexican traffickers are sending greater quantities and larger loads of drugs into the United States. Seizures of marijuana by U.S. agencies along the southwestern U.S. border, where 70% of all illicit drugs enter the country, are up as much as 33% over last year, according to U.S.

Cocaine and marijuana seizures inside the southwestern U.S. border and along Mexico's Pacific coast have escalated dramatically in the last two years, alarming U.S. law enforcement authorities, who say Mexican traffickers are sending greater quantities and larger loads of drugs into the United States. Seizures of marijuana by U.S. agencies along the southwestern U.S. border, where 70% of all illicit drugs enter the country, are up as much as 33% over last year, according to U.S.

A Torrance truck driver is in custody and the former owners of an Ontario trucking firm are on the run after federal agents and a drug-sniffing springer spaniel named Fred uncovered 8,000 pounds of cocaine in the back of a tractor-trailer truck west of Pecos, Tex. The drug seizure culminated an eight-month undercover investigation by federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents into what DEA officials described as "one of the most significant drug trafficking organizations" in the Southwest.

A Torrance truck driver is in custody and the former owners of an Ontario trucking firm are on the run after federal agents and a drug-sniffing springer spaniel named Fred uncovered 8,000 pounds of cocaine in the back of a tractor-trailer truck west of Pecos, Tex. The drug seizure culminated an eight-month undercover investigation by federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents into what DEA officials described as "one of the most significant drug trafficking organizations" in the Southwest.