Found at the Border

Mexican Man Busted Smuggling $100,000 Out of U.S. Either Lied or Is Bad at Counting

By Matthew Hendley Tue., May 21 2013 at 12:54 PM
Categories: Found at the Border, Straight Cash, Homey
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CBP
The extra, extra unreported cash.
A Mexican national was busted trying to smuggle more than $100,000 from the United States into Mexico, and he may have been caught only because he either lied or is bad at counting.

See, U.S. Customs and Border Protection says 54-year-old Gamaliel Gonzales De Dios declared $1,000 in cash when he tried to go back into Mexico on Friday, but CBP officers counted it up, and found $1,893.

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-Border Agents Find a Ton of Weed Hidden in Charcoal
-Agents Find Heroin Stuffed in a Guy's Belly Button
-Bell Peppers Will Not Disguise 2,000 Pounds of Weed
-Border Agents Find Women With Buckets of Chicken: Half Original Recipe, Half Meth
-Mexican Man Breaks Record for Unsuccessful Arizona-Bound Marijuana Smuggling
-230 Pounds of Cheese Seized at U.S./Mexico Border

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Found at the Border

Border Agents Find a Ton (Literally, 2,000 Pounds) of Weed Hidden in Charcoal

By Matthew Hendley Mon., May 20 2013 at 3:11 PM
Categories: Found at the Border
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CBP
How to get really high and cook hamburgers at the same time?
Today in Found at the border: A Mexican national tried to smuggle 2,000 pounds of weed into the United States by hiding the stash in bricks of charcoal.

Thanks to Wilhelm Röntgen's 1895 discovery of the X-ray, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers were able to see late last week that the 1,000 bags of charcoal also held a ton of marijuana.

See also:
-Agents Find Heroin Stuffed in a Guy's Belly Button
-Bell Peppers Will Not Disguise 2,000 Pounds of Weed
-Border Agents Find Women With Buckets of Chicken: Half Original Recipe, Half Meth
-Mexican Man Breaks Record for Unsuccessful Arizona-Bound Marijuana Smuggling
-230 Pounds of Cheese Seized at U.S./Mexico Border


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Found at the Border

More Than 200 Pounds of Cheese Seized at U.S./Mexico Border, for Second Time This Year

By Matthew Hendley Thu., May 16 2013 at 11:35 AM
Categories: Found at the Border
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CBP
The federal government's second cheese seizure this year.
For the second time this year, U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized hundreds of pounds of cheese from someone trying to drive a cheese-load into the United States from Mexico.

Federal authorities say not only was this cheese undeclared, but it also was unpasteurized.

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-230 Pounds of Cheese Seized at U.S./Mexico Border


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Found at the Border

Border Agents Find Heroin Stuffed in a Guy's Belly Button

By Matthew Hendley Thu., May 9 2013 at 11:26 AM
Categories: Found at the Border, Photo of the Day
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Customs and Border Protection
That's a belly button full o' heroin.


Ladies and gentlemen, the above photo is a man's belly button stuffed with heroin, in an attempted smuggling attempt in Nogales.

See also:
-Bell Peppers Will Not Disguise 2,000 Pounds of Weed, Mexican National Discovers
-Border Agents Find Women With Buckets of Chicken: Half Original Recipe, Half Meth
-Mexican Man Breaks Record for Unsuccessful Arizona-Bound Marijuana Smuggling
-230 Pounds of Cheese Seized at U.S./Mexico Border

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Phoenix Man Tries to Cross Border With Almost $11,000 in His Shoes, but Fails

By Matthew Hendley Thu., Apr. 11 2013 at 2:14 PM
Categories: Found at the Border
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CBP
What $11,000 looks like inside of Nike shoes.
Today in Found at the Border, a Phoenix man tried to cross the border into Mexico with almost $11,000 in his shoes.

It might sound like a cash-hiding method that would be obvious to the authorities, but that's not quite the case.

See also:
-Bell Peppers Will Not Disguise 2,000 Pounds of Weed, Mexican National Discovers
-Border Agents Find Women With Buckets of Chicken: Half Original Recipe, Half Meth
-Mexican Man Breaks Record for Unsuccessful Arizona-Bound Marijuana Smuggling
-230 Pounds of Cheese Seized at U.S./Mexico Border

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Found at the Border

Border Patrol Agent Who Said He Was "F***ed" After Being Caught Smuggling Weed Was Right, Will Go to Prison

By Matthew Hendley Wed., Apr. 10 2013 at 3:11 PM
Categories: Found at the Border
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Aaron Anaya
Border Patrol Agent Aaron Anaya, who said he was "fucked" after getting caught smuggling about 147 pounds of marijuana into the United States while on the job, was more or less correct in his assessment.

Anaya signed a plea agreement today that will send him to prison for five years.

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-Border Patrol Agent Allegedly Caught Smuggling Weed on the Job, Claims He's "F***ed"


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Bell Peppers Will Not Disguise 2,000 Pounds of Weed, Mexican National Discovers

By Matthew Hendley Thu., Mar. 14 2013 at 3:28 PM
Categories: Found at the Border
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CBP
Bell peppers on top of packages of weed.
A Mexican national discovered on Tuesday that a bunch of bell peppers won't conceal more than 2,000 pounds of marijuana from the authorities.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection made the find while the man was attempting to enter the United States through a commercial facility in Nogales with the load in a tractor-trailer.

See also:
-Border Agents Find Women With Buckets of Chicken: Half Original Recipe, Half Meth
-Mexican Man Breaks Record for Unsuccessful Arizona-Bound Marijuana Smuggling
-230 Pounds of Cheese Seized at U.S./Mexico Border


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Found at the Border

Border Agents Find Women With Buckets of Chicken: Half Original Recipe, Half Meth

By Matthew Hendley Fri., Feb. 22 2013 at 2:47 PM
Categories: Found at the Border
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CBP
The actual meth-chicken buckets.
Unless someone's familiar with a Nogales-area establishment that sells chicken and meth in the same bucket, we'll have to rely on U.S. Customs and Border Protection's claim that it busted a smuggling attempt.

Yes, the preferred method of smuggling in this attempt apparently was to hide multiple pounds of meth inside a bucket full o' fried chicken.

See also:
-230 Pounds of Cheese Seized at U.S./Mexico Border
-Drug Smugglers Shoot Cannons Into U.S., Use Cans of Weed as Ammo
-Piñatas Used to Hide 425 Pounds of Weed, Feds Ruin Best Fiesta Ever
-Failed Meth-Smuggling Attempt: Woman Duct-Taped Two Pounds of Meth to Her Belly

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Mexican Man Breaks Record for Unsuccessful Arizona-Bound Marijuana Smuggling

By Matthew Hendley Wed., Jan. 23 2013 at 12:20 PM
Categories: Found at the Border
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A 26-year-old Mexican national is apparently a new record-holder in the world of marijuana smuggling.

According to Customs and Border Protection, nobody's been caught with this much marijuana at an Arizona port of entry -- more than 14,000 pounds.

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-230 Pounds of Cheese Seized at U.S./Mexico Border
-Drug Smugglers Now Shooting Cannons Into United States, Using Cans of Weed as Ammo
-Piñatas Used to Hide 425 Pounds of Weed, Feds Ruin Best Fiesta Ever


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Failed Meth-Smuggling Attempt: Woman Duct-Taped Two Pounds of Meth to Her Belly

By Matthew Hendley Thu., Jan. 17 2013 at 2:17 PM
Categories: Found at the Border
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zazzle.com
The only thing that would have made this meth-smuggling attempt worse.
In one of the less-thought-out attempts to smuggle meth into the United States, Customs and Border protection officers busted a Washington woman with a couple pounds of meth taped to her belly.

Believe it or not, an officer got suspicious when he spotted 28-year-old Laura Ivanez-Ramirez in the pedestrian lane at the San Luis port of entry around 8 p.m. on Monday, as she had "suspicious bulges in her clothing," according to a federal complaint.

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