[cyborg]

Darn Vicente Fox can't buy another gated estate.

[DesertDreamer]

Probably drug money destined for the bank account of the DNC Chair, The Honorable Bill Richardson, Governor of New Mexico. ::eyeroll::

[squidly]

It's messed up that we live in a society where the authorities automatically go after a suitcase full of cash, regardless of whether it is known to be involved in anything illegal. I'm wondering what the threshold of suspicion is, that is, how much cash can I carry without being detained by the gendarmes on suspicion of drug smuggling?

[Between the Lines]

A drug-sniffing dog from the State Motor Transportation Department was brought to the scene to search the aircraft, Garcia said. He said the dog "hit on the plane's front cargo compartment," directly behind the engine. Another suitcase filled with cellophane-wrapped cash was discovered in the front cargo area. Garcia said no narcotics were found on board the airplane or in either of the suitcases. However, he said the suitcases could have residual narcotics on them, which would alert the drug-sniffing dog.

Do you get the feeling they train these dogs to sniff out money just so they can say it is drug money?

I feel so much safer now that it is a crime to carry large amounts of cash. < /sarcasm >

[Coroner]

Good thinking started on 10/26/2003. ZOTTTTTTT!!!

[LibWhacker]

. . . weighed more than 300 pounds . . .

Obviously small bills, lots of ones. Fifty thousand $20s wouldn't weigh anywhere close to 300 pounds. Never heard of a big time drug dealer conducting his transactions in one dollar bills. Give Rana back the money from his laundromat biz and leave the poor man alone!

[Cicero]

It was some perfectly innocent spare cash I had in a suitcase that went astray yesterday. I want it back.

[TexNotMex]

"Another suitcase filled with cellophane-wrapped cash was discovered in the front cargo area."

Sometimes I think they train these dogs to sniff out cellophane not drugs or cash. I guess if you are going to be smuggling drugs or cash, it would be wise to use fresh cellophane/plastic bags, not something that you had your ham sandwich in earlier. On an unrelated note, just recently, along the US-Mexico border, 80 lbs. of illegal bolonga was seized. I bet that dog pissed himself when he found that. Thats probably the biggest illegal bolonga seizure this year. I guess customs hit the mother-load.

[Spunky]

There was an article not to long ago about a truck being stopped and it was full of millions of dollars.

I wonder if it could be money coming in to fund terrorist cells here in the U.S.

[arasina]

Kamlesh Rana? Yuri Folks?

[Hildy]

This sounds like that movie, KNOCKAROUND GUYS...anyone see it?

[Joe Hadenuf]

and it has been determined that he is here illegally, said Leticia Zamarripa, public information liaison for the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection in El Paso.

Our country is so infested with people that are here illegally.

It is f-ing out of control.......

[cynicom]

Ezz not my zootcase.