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I-40 stop nets 52 pounds of cocaine [Shocking: Illegals]
Posted on 07/03/2003 10:16:23 AM PDT by AppyPappy
I-40 stop nets 52 pounds of cocaine
7-3-03
News & Record
Posted 9:50 a.m.
STATESVILLE (AP) -- Iredell County sheriff's deputies who stopped a car on Interstate 40 earlier this week netted 52 pounds of cocaine worth an estimated $5.6 million, authorities said.
"I think anytime you seize in excess of $5 million off the street, it's a pretty big lick," said sheriff's Lt. Jimmy Craven, director of Iredell's narcotics division. "That's a big loss to somebody, whoever the big man is."
The car, carrying three Mexican nationals, was stopped Monday as it headed east on I-40 in the community of Cool Springs. Iredell deputies Joseph Tulbert and J.C. Elliott, who pulled the car over because it had an illegal tinted cover on its license plate, found 19 packages of cocaine hidden in two false compartments.
The previous largest amount of cocaine seized on I-40 in the state had been about 11 pounds, deputies said.
The car's driver, Jose Daniel Amador Beltran of Nogales, Mexico, was charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and marijuana. He is in the Mecklenburg County jail without bond, Deputy U.S. Marshal Steve Gladden said.
Beltran's car had crossed the border 28 times, most recently at the Nogales crossing two days before the deputies' stop, Tulbert said.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: addiction; liberdopian; wodlist
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To: Just another Joe
The car, carrying three Mexican nationals,
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posted on
07/03/2003 11:05:03 AM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
To: nygoose
LOL--there is a Mecklenburg Co. in Virginia too. I happened to recognize Iredell Co. since I grew up in N.C.
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posted on
07/03/2003 11:07:07 AM PDT
by
NautiNurse
(If Lawton Chiles runs for the Senate seat in 2004, we will **really** have Jurassic Park in Florida)
To: AppyPappy
How many people speed and get away with it?
Should we eliminate laws against speeding?>>>>>>>
I'm only pointing out that our "long & costly" WOD continues to fail. Now taxpayers are expected to foot the bills for a "long & costly" WOT, while our gov't continues with it's same *open border* policies.
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posted on
07/03/2003 11:07:39 AM PDT
by
txdoda
("Navy-brat")
To: AppyPappy
probably for personal use.
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posted on
07/03/2003 11:08:12 AM PDT
by
vin-one
(I wish i had something clever to put in this tag)
To: vin-one
Has anybody seen Brittney Spears?
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posted on
07/03/2003 11:09:36 AM PDT
by
toothless
(I AM A MAN)
To: toothless
yeah, she just left my house, with a very happy grin on her face..........
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posted on
07/03/2003 11:19:46 AM PDT
by
vin-one
(I wish i had something clever to put in this tag)
To: AppyPappy
The car, carrying three Mexican nationals,Again, it does not say these "Mexican nationals" were in the country illegaly. They may have been breaking laws but if they were not, would they have been in the country illegaly?
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posted on
07/03/2003 11:24:20 AM PDT
by
Just another Joe
(FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
To: Just another Joe
So the other 27 loads, at about $5 million a load, got through. Now there's a record to be proud of.
1,400 lbs gets through and 52 lbs is confiscated - from just ONE runner.>>>>>>>>
Yes, if our new *border security* worked ANY better than the old border security, these drug smugglers would have been stopped AT THE BORDER.
Sheesh....when they finally got stopped they had 52 lbs....who knows how much they crossed with?? Might have already delivered most of this load.
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posted on
07/03/2003 11:27:50 AM PDT
by
txdoda
("Navy-brat")
To: AppyPappy
it's kind of weird that your tagline reflects the very problem with our Federal govt's War on Drugs:
(If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
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posted on
07/03/2003 11:29:28 AM PDT
by
bc2
To: AppyPappy
STATESVILLE (AP) -- I guess now they'll be getting their drugs from the pharmacy up at Statesville Prison -- along with Sally Decker, Dutch Gunderson, Montague Martin, Lana Casales, Veronica Rivers and the Burtons' butler, Thames.
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posted on
07/03/2003 11:30:51 AM PDT
by
Sloth
("I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!" -- Jacobim Mugatu, 'Zoolander')
To: AppyPappy
How many people speed and get away with it?
Should we eliminate laws against speeding?How many people drive drunk and get away with it?
Should we eliminate laws against drunk driving?
If laws against speeding and drunk driving had as many negative effects, and were as unrelated to protecting individual liberties, as are laws against drugs, the answer would be yes.
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posted on
07/03/2003 2:25:41 PM PDT
by
MrLeRoy
(The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. - Jefferson)
To: AppyPappy
Beltran's car had crossed the border 28 times, most recently at the Nogales crossing two days before the deputies' stop, Tulbert said Great intell, great use of records. DEA and INS geniuses can tell you how many times. But USE the data for any meanigfuL purpose (LIKE HERE'S A LEADING CANDIDATE TO BE IMPORTING SOMETHING ILLEGAL?)
Then again, I'm sure this was dismissed @ INS as bordering on racial profile-ing. And beside Gov't employees are there to live off the public, not provide value.
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posted on
07/03/2003 2:34:51 PM PDT
by
Swanks
To: NautiNurse
So, between the two of us, we've identified three Mecklenburg counties. Mecklenburg County, Kentucky is famous for the Mecklenburg sound or style of music. It's also the home of the Everly Brothers. That's all I know and it's not much and may even be slightly inaccurate. So, take it for whatever it's worth.
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posted on
07/03/2003 4:58:32 PM PDT
by
nygoose
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