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COCHISE COUNTY-- Operation Pipeline has been shut down. Claiming it a success, the U.S. Border Patrol has ended the monthlong operation that netted 3,028 illegal immigrants, seized 4,835 pounds of marijuana and confiscated 272 vehicles used to transport people and drugs, said Charles Griffin, a spokesman for the agency's Tucson Sector. The operation concentrated on the Naco Corridor, an area mostly in Cochise County that goes from the border north to Interstate 10, he said. The eastern boundary was the San Pedro River and the western limits were the western side of the Huachuca Mountains, that included part of Santa...