More news from our retired border agents today:
http://digital.montrealgazette.com/epaper/viewer.aspx%20
VANCOUVER — Canadian border guards have seized $43 million worth of cocaine at the Pacific Highway border crossing in the past week.
A Canada Border Service Agency spokesperson said the latest seizure occurred on Dec. 24 when a B.C.registered tractor-trailer unit carrying bananas from California was searched.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/27/MNMQ14QQ9B.DTL%20
Elusive bandit loves fast horses and faster ladies
Richard Marosi, Los Angeles Times
Sunday, December 28, 2008
(12-28) 04:00 PST Tijuana — (link at the end of article)
He is said to love the ladies, fast horses and dissolving enemies in lye.
Teodoro Garcia Simental is among the best known but least identifiable villains in Mexico’s drug war, blamed for a trail of terror across Baja California.
His heavily armed hit men, authorities say, have been leaving the gruesome displays of charred and decapitated bodies across the city, signed with the moniker “Tres Letras,” for the three letters in “Teo.” And authorities believe he runs a network of hideouts where kidnap victims are held in cages.
Yet thousands of police officers, soldiers, state and federal agents can’t seem to find him.
Billboards showing Tijuana’s most wanted kidnappers don’t include Garcia’s image, even though he is believed to be behind most of the gang war that has claimed more than 400 lives here since late September.
“That tells you that you don’t want to be the one responsible for putting Teo’s picture in public,” said one U.S. law enforcement source who spoke on condition of anonymity. “There’s no future in it.”
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