Posted on 05/05/2007 9:46:55 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
American Indian Officers Use Traditional Methods of Tracking to Try to Capture Drug Smugglers
TOHONO O'ODHAM NATION, ARIZ. -- In an era of unmanned drones, night-vision goggles and wireless sensors, Sloan Satepauhoodle scours the desert along the Mexican border for drug smugglers in the old ways.
She is a tracker, a former Secret Service agent and customs inspector in Washington who traded in her desk and computer to work "intel" in the desert, employing sign-cutting -- or tracking -- skills once used by her Kiowa ancestors to hunt animals.
Satepauhoodle (pronounced SAY-paw-who-dle) roams this vast Indian reservation in a four-wheel-drive pickup, armed with an M-4 rifle and a .40-caliber semiautomatic pistol. Her job: to look for the tiniest sign that a smuggler has been around and then go after him.
A thread or a fiber on a branch in a thicket could mean a backpacker carrying burlap-wrapped bales of marijuana on his back bumped against the brush. Flat, smooth, shiny tracks indicate smugglers with scraps of carpet tied around their shoes to disguise their prints. A wide, flat indentation of the sand under a tree suggests that a smuggler set down his load of marijuana to rest.
Faint V-shaped lines embedded in a footprint? "Vibram boot. Some smugglers like them," Satepauhoodle said as she walked into a patch of choya cactus and greasewood trees in search of more. "Let me check it out."
High-tech has arrived at the border, but low-tech is very much in use by a special group of federal agents whose sign-cutting skills are being used in the fight against drugs. They are called Shadow Wolves, a small all-Native American group of drug interdiction officers that includes three women, including Satepauhoodle, 40. Her Kiowa name means "Kill the Bear" or "Fuzzy Bear," depending on the pronunciation and....
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We had some illegals from Macedonia in South Texas a few weeks back. Small world.
Babes like her always get me going.
MMmmmm!
Ping!
If you want on, or off this S. Texas/Mexico ping list, please FReepMail me.
Ain't no such thing as choya. That word has 2 Ells. Think I'll ask the Post about their spell-checker...
story here http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1825599/posts
and here http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1684635/posts
Also there have an Armed Forces Press Service releases about them going and training trackers.
The WashingtonPUKE is just now finding out about them.
Is she big, tall and beautiful and in need of a loving patriot?
And no "y".
Know y not?
I don’t know, but the pic isn’t that detailed.
She’s probably married, though.
Her Kiowa name means “Kill the Bear” or “Fuzzy Bear,” depending on the pronunciation
Tomorrow’s headline? “U.S. DOJ assures Mexico City: Shadow Wolves will be held to same accountability as Border Patrol agents. Rights violators could get 11 - 12 years.”
Yes, but she only gets off on men who have both stay and free in their names.
Sweet dreams.
Ummm, no.
Ethnic Albanians or Macedonian Slavs?
Five die in Hebbronville accident[Macedonian illegals in South Texas]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1792031/posts
The t is silent?
Bttt!
CBP Ping!
Shadow Wolves aren’t part of CBP anymore, but they were the old “Customs Patrol Officers.”
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