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Pot-laden truck creates armed standoff (at the Mexico border)
El Paso Times ^ | nov 19 | Daniel Borunda

Posted on 11/19/2005 11:25:56 AM PST by dennisw

A marijuana-laden dump truck got stuck in the Rio Grande on Thursday evening in Hudspeth County, leading to a standoff between U.S. law enforcement and what appeared to be the Mexican military, sheriff officials said.

"It's a very serious incident," Hudspeth County Chief Deputy Mike Doyal said.

"We are very fortunate (Thursday) night no one got hurt," Doyal said. "Everyone had the presence of mind not to cause an international incident, or start shooting."

The incident began when Border Patrol agents tried to stop the dump truck on Interstate 10, sheriff's officials said. The truck fled to Mexico in the Neely's Crossing area.

The truck got stuck in the riverbed, and the driver took off running. Agents "started to retrieve the bundles (of marijuana) when the armed subjects appeared," said Agent Ramiro Cordero, a Border Patrol spokesman. The Border Patrol called Hudspeth County sheriff's deputies and Texas state troopers for backup, both agencies confirmed.

Doyal said the truck driver returned with the armed men, including men who arrived in official-looking vehicles with overhead lights and what appeared to be Mexican soldiers in uniform and with military-style rifles.

The Mexican army is used in anti-narcotics operations. Army officials could not be reached for comment.

The standoff ended when the "soldiers" used a bulldozer to pull the dump truck into Mexico, sheriff's officials said.

Doyal said the bulldozer is kept in the area and is suspected of being used to create makeshift paths across the river.

"The 1,850 pounds confiscated (by U.S. authorities) was probably a third of what was in the truck. The rest went into the Mexican side," Doyal said.

Cordero, the Border Patrol spokesman, described the incident as an "armed encounter with drug smugglers" but would not confirm whether the Mexican military was involved. Investigations into the incident continue.

Daniel Borunda may be reached at dborunda@elpasotimes.com; 546-6102.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; borderpatrol; bordersecurity; bush; bushamnesty; guestworker; illegalimmigration; immigrantlist; immigration; invasionusa; narcodemocracy; openborders; presidentbush; warondrugs
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To: dennisw

Just smuggling the truckloads of marijuana that uppity Americans refuse to smuggle...


81 posted on 11/19/2005 2:29:07 PM PST by George W. Bush
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To: King Prout

The narco-trash in the Mexican army didn't want the pot to be lost - that might cut into their bottom line.


82 posted on 11/19/2005 2:38:14 PM PST by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon Liberty, it is essential to examine principle)
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To: dennisw

They must be harvesting some of the drugs from the U.S. National Park "fields" & shipping the pot back to Mexico.

The whole border issue steams me.


83 posted on 11/19/2005 2:52:18 PM PST by madison10
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To: dennisw

Driving a dump truck filled with marijuana: just doing a job no American wants to do...


84 posted on 11/19/2005 2:55:55 PM PST by DTogo (I haven't left the GOP, the GOP left me.)
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To: dennisw

why is weed going into mexico?? I thought it came from mexico??


85 posted on 11/19/2005 3:00:02 PM PST by sit-rep (If you acquire, hit it again to verify...)
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To: Prime Choice

Sounds good to me! I bet we could raise some serious cash selling raffle tickets to the general public to participate!


86 posted on 11/19/2005 3:07:46 PM PST by AprilfromTexas
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To: downtoliberalism

Well technically it is but for several decades now they haven't given a tinkers damn


87 posted on 11/19/2005 3:22:07 PM PST by Nebr FAL owner (.308 reach out & thump someone .50 cal.Browning Machine gun reach out & crush someone)
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To: dennisw
Seems like the Predator Drones need to be armed with anti-marijuana missiles (and maybe anti-bulldozer missiles)...
88 posted on 11/19/2005 3:22:22 PM PST by topher (Please let Old-Fashioned moral values return to the United States!)
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To: topher; All

Any one bet the same truck made in fine the following night?


89 posted on 11/19/2005 3:29:50 PM PST by Sybeck1 (chance is the “magic wand to make not only rabbits but entire universes appear out of nothing.”)
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To: 43north
Make no mistake Black Jack Pershing would not be of any use in this situation, simply because the guy that sits in the White House will refuse to let the military or justice dept. to do anything to stop the invasion. Sad to say it but it will take another 9-11 this time even worse & the badguys being tracked to the US/Mexico border for the whores in Washington DC to even consider fortifying the border
90 posted on 11/19/2005 3:34:05 PM PST by Nebr FAL owner (.308 reach out & thump someone .50 cal.Browning Machine gun reach out & crush someone)
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To: dennisw

Should have called in an air strike from the military and smoked all of them. Stupid government on the U.S. side of the border.


91 posted on 11/19/2005 3:37:38 PM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: dennisw

An armed standoff with Mexican dope smugglers, and the official Mexican Army, who are part and parcel of the smuggling operation.


92 posted on 11/19/2005 3:49:16 PM PST by Travis McGee (--- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ---)
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To: Prime Choice

Liberalitarians and Hippies hardest hit.



Don't forget the pain addicts.


93 posted on 11/19/2005 5:07:38 PM PST by eleni121 ('Thou hast conquered, O Galilean!' (Julian the Apostate))
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To: eleni121

Unfortunately, there is so much money to be made in drugs that there are bribes paid to officials on BOTH sides of the border (meaning, the US Border Patrol isn't lily white, either).

But, yes, Mexican soldiers (paid very well by the drug runners) have used humvees to escort drug couriers as much as five miles into the USA; and nobody wants to take on their firepower (or create an international incident).

But one of these days, something will end up happening (meaning: shooting), and then everyone will regret not
doing something about this earlier, before there was violence.


94 posted on 11/19/2005 5:19:36 PM PST by CondorFlight
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To: eleni121
Don't forget the pain addicts.

Lord knows there's no other drug on Earth that handles acute or chronic pain.

95 posted on 11/19/2005 6:08:29 PM PST by Prime Choice (Mechanical Engineers build weapons. Civil Engineers build targets.)
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To: Prime Choice

I was being sarcastic about pot and pain. I hope you are too.

Pot is completely unecessary for pain control.


96 posted on 11/19/2005 6:10:12 PM PST by eleni121 ('Thou hast conquered, O Galilean!' (Julian the Apostate))
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To: eleni121
I was being sarcastic about pot and pain. I hope you are too.

Oh yes. I have diabetic neuropathy (long story). I know what chronic pain is.

Pot is completely unecessary for pain control.

There are some illicit drugs that are good at pain control, and all have incredibly devastating physical dependence syndromes. I used to work with people who were picking up the pieces of their lives after falling prey to that devastation. It was through those times that I learned that God's mercy can be severe.

97 posted on 11/19/2005 6:14:51 PM PST by Prime Choice (Mechanical Engineers build weapons. Civil Engineers build targets.)
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To: tillacum

Maybe maybe not. Some of their special forces have supposedly gone to the dark side and work for drug lords.


98 posted on 11/19/2005 6:18:19 PM PST by Cold Heart
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To: topher

A 50 cal. BMG is a bulldozer missile and a darned good one too.


99 posted on 11/19/2005 6:18:57 PM PST by B4Ranch (No expiration date is on the Oath to protect America from all enemies, foreign and domestic.)
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To: 43north

Either he's dead or he's in Mexico, still looking for Pancho Villa.


100 posted on 11/19/2005 6:27:10 PM PST by dr_who_2
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