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  • UFO striking fighter jet is among swarm of mystery objects spotted near US military sites in Arizona: reports (unidentified drone, not UFO)

    05/20/2025 3:10:48 AM PDT · by RoosterRedux · 22 replies
    NYPost ^ | Nicole Rosenthal
    A UFO that struck and damaged a US fighter jet is just one of a swarm of mystery objects buzzing around Air Force training ranges in Arizona, according to multiple reports. One of the unidentified flying objects hit the clear bubble “canopy” over the head of a pilot in a $63 million F-16 Viper jet in January 2023, damaging it and temporarily grounding the plane, according to Federal Aviation Administration documents first reported by the War Zone. The military jet was struck midair by “an orange-white UAS,” or “uncrewed aerial system,” the FAA documents said. The term refers to drones....
  • Breaking: Explosive FBI Warning—CCP, Iran, and Mex-Cartels Partnering in Canada to Move Fentanyl and Terrorists Into U.S.

    05/19/2025 6:31:01 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 27 replies
    THE BUREAU ^ | 18 May, 2025 | Sam Cooper
    Patel’s warning echoes The Bureau’s exclusive reporting on a criminal convergence linking CCP-backed chemical suppliers, Iranian proxies, and Mexican cartels operating through Vancouver superlabs. WASHINGTON — In an explosive Sunday interview that will place tremendous pressure on Prime Minister Mark Carney’s new Liberal government, FBI Director Kash Patel alleged that Mexican cartels, Chinese Communist Party operatives, and Iranian threat actors have forged a new axis of criminal cooperation, using Canada’s porous northern border and the Port of Vancouver—not the southern Mexican border—as their preferred entry point to flood fentanyl and terror suspects into the United States. “In the first two,...
  • Baltimore CBP Officers Uncover $875K Marijuana Haul Hidden in Men’s Overalls Shipment

    05/19/2025 6:15:41 AM PDT · by V_TWIN · 21 replies
    thegatewaypundit.com ^ | May. 18, 2025 | Cassandra MacDonald
    The marijuana was inside 155 vacuum-sealed packages listed on the manifesto as “brace overalls for men / heavy duty workwear bib.” According to a press release from CBP, “The marijuana collectively weighed 91.3 kilograms, or 201 pounds and five ounces, and has a street value of about $875,000 in the United States. Depending on potency, this shipment could have fetched two to three times more in Europe.”
  • U.S. customs agents find parrots stuffed in man’s boots

    05/15/2025 7:12:01 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 35 replies
    In two separate incidents at Otay Mesa and San Ysidro, agents discovered a total of 28 parrots and three chickens during suspected smuggling attempts. The first incident unfolded on April 30 at the Otay Mesa port of entry. After the 51-year-old driver exited his vehicle, officers noticed peculiar bulges around his ankles. A safety pat-down revealed a shocking discovery: six live, undeclared parrots crammed inside the man’s boots, according to a CBP release. A further search of the vehicle uncovered six additional parrots, sadly, two of which had died. Just days later, on May 4, at the San Ysidro port...
  • Venezuela's Clans Usher Hezbollah in Through the Front Door

    03/26/2021 10:02:19 AM PDT · by Marinario · 8 replies
    Iran Wire ^ | 15.Feb.2021 | XIMENA HERRERA
    Abdala Rada Ramel has close ties to Salman Raouf Salman, who has been also accused of an important role in the AMIA bombing attack The "clans" consist of groups of Lebanese origin who exert control over given territories in South America - and enable Hezbollah All three clans are strategically positioned close to the most important ports of Venezuela, from which they doubtless oversee the trade and handling of goods that in turn allows Hezbollah to profit Assad Ahmad Barakat is accused of having been involved in the AMIA bomb attack and operating call centers and shell companies on behalf...
  • Estonia seizes Russian shadow tanker in Baltic Sea

    04/11/2025 9:23:11 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 6 replies
    Politico EU ^ | 4/11/2025 | SEB STARCEVIC
    Estonian authorities detained and boarded a ship in the Baltic Sea that belongs to Russia’s shadow fleet, Prime Minister Kristen Michal said Friday. The vessel, which Michal said did not sail under any nation’s flag but was previously registered to Djibouti according to publicly available records, was detained near Tallinn Bay in an operation involving helicopters. “Early this morning, the Estonian Navy detained a sanctioned vessel with no flag state,” Michal said in a post on social media. “Our authorities are currently on board, inspecting its legal status and safety.” The ship was heading to the port of Ust-Luga, a...
  • Utah Oil Tycoon James Jensen and Wife Arrested in $300M Mexican Oil Smuggling Scheme — Feds Raid $9.2M Mansion with Battering Ram

    05/13/2025 7:12:00 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 60 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | May 13, 2025 | Staff
    Federal agents have arrested Utah oil magnate James Lael Jensen, his wife Kelly Anne Jensen, and two of their sons, Maxwell Sterling Jensen (aka “Max”) and Zachary Golden Jensen, in connection with a sprawling $300 MILLION smuggling and money laundering conspiracy tied to Mexican criminal organizations. Court records reveal that all four members of the Jensen family were arrested on Wednesday, April 23 — with sons Max and Zachary taken into custody in the Rio Grande Valley, while James and Kelly Jensen were apprehended at their 26,893-square-foot mansion in Sandy, Utah, reportedly worth over $9.1 million. The arrest was carried...
  • Three men held over suitcases stuffed with hermit crabs

    05/11/2025 8:54:12 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 24 replies
    bbc ^ | Thomas Mackintosh
    Three men have been arrested in Japan for attempting to smuggle hermit crabs out of the country. The suspects, aged 24, 26 and 27, and widely identified in Japanese media as being Chinese nationals, were detained on Amami, a southerly island where the spiral-shelled crustaceans are a protected species. Authorities were alerted to the men's live cargo when hotel staff, who had been asked to look after their luggage, noticed the suitcases making a "rustling noise", police told local media. Officers subsequently discovered "thousands" of hermit crabs, weighing around 95kg. The third man was found to have a further 65kg...
  • Biden Admin Sent DHS, HSI Fake Addresses for 300,000 Missing Migrant Children

    05/11/2025 3:45:54 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 24 replies
    RPW Media ^ | May 10, 2025 | Staff
    During the Biden debacle, his administration denied that they had lost 300,000 children who came into the country unaccompanied, and they provided the addresses where these children were, while denying they were being trafficked. There is only one problem with that. The addresses they provided to the Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), were fake. They were just made up by Biden’s White House or by those claiming the children whom the Biden administration did not properly vet. And now the Trump administration is working diligently to find these missing and trafficked children. Breanna Morello:...
  • The convicted human trafficker who owned the van driven by deported MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia, has reportedly told DOJ officials that he PAID Garcia to transport ILLEGAL ALIENS from Texas across the country.

    05/10/2025 9:04:09 PM PDT · by grundle · 19 replies
    Twitter ^ | May 7, 2025 | Libs of TikTok
    The convicted human trafficker who owned the van driven by deported MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia, has reportedly told DOJ officials that he PAID Garcia to transport ILLEGAL ALIENS from Texas across the country. This is the "Maryland Man" that Democrats have been fighting for.
  • Soros-Linked Groups Sue to Stop Trump’s Migrant Child Trafficking Crackdown

    05/09/2025 5:30:50 PM PDT · by CFW · 23 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 5/9/25 | John Binder
    Two left-wing non-governmental organizations (NGOs), both with financial ties to Alex and George Soros’s network, are suing to stop President Donald Trump’s reforms of the Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) program, which are intended to end trafficking of such migrant children within the United States. In February, Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued reforms to the UAC program, which resettles migrant children in American communities with adult sponsors after they arrive at the U.S.-Mexico border without parents or guardians. Part of those reforms is banning UACs from being turned over to illegal aliens in the United States. HHS...
  • Historic Fentanyl Bust: Pam Bondi Reveals One of the Largest Seizures in U.S. History

    05/07/2025 8:56:22 AM PDT · by rktman · 59 replies
    townhall.com ^ | 5/6/2025 | Sarah Arnold
    In another significant win for law enforcement, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced one of the largest fentanyl seizures in U.S. history, underscoring the ongoing efforts to combat the drug crisis plaguing American communities. The bust, which seized enough fentanyl to kill millions, is just another stark reminder of the deadly threat posed by illegal drug trafficking and the importance of a strong, border-focused strategy that was ignored during the Biden administration. On Tuesday, Bondi announced that authorities made one of the biggest fentanyl busts in U.S. history with the seizure of 11.5 kilos of the drug, including three million fentanyl...
  • Pam Bondi Touts Takedown of 6 High-Level Sinaloa Cartel Members and Largest Fentanyl Seizure in U.S. History

    05/06/2025 9:45:40 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 43 replies
    Red State ^ | 05/06/2025 | Jennifer Oliver O'Connell
    On Tuesday, Attorney General Pamela Bondi held a press conference announcing a week-long, multi-agency and multi-law enforcement and tribal operation headed by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the New Mexico District Attorney’s Office. The operation resulted in huge drug busts and multiple arrests of high-level members of the Sinaloa cartel. According to Bondi, the agents garnered 11.5 kilos of fentanyl, including three million fentanyl pills — the largest seizure in the nation's history. The main head of the Sinaloa cartel, Alberto Salazar Amaya, was arrested along with five others, all in the country illegally. Amaya was arrested in Salem,...
  • Israel Warns Yemenis: Get Out Of the Airport; UPDATE: 'Completely Disabled'

    05/06/2025 9:16:03 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 19 replies
    Hot Air ^ | May 06, 2025 | Ed Morrissey
    Curious, only in that this wasn't the first target selected by the IDF. Israel has launched retaliatory strikes against the Houthis in Yemen after a missile nearly hit Ben-Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, the main international hub. Airlines suspended service temporarily while the Israelis work to restore security, creating headaches for their transportation and their economy. Rather than target the Sanaa International Airport in retaliation, though, the IDF initially targeted Houthi port operations in Hodeidah, destroying a significant part of that infrastructure. Today, however, the IDF intends to return the favor in full: Israel's military on Tuesday warned people to...
  • Feds crush ‘historic’ ABQ-centered drug empire: Millions in drugs, cash seized

    05/01/2025 4:55:11 PM PDT · by CedarDave · 24 replies
    The Piñon Post ^ | May 1, 2025 | Piñon Post staff
    A sprawling fentanyl trafficking network stretching from Albuquerque to Salem, Oregon, has been shattered by federal authorities in what’s being called one of the largest operations of its kind in U.S. history. The takedown, made public this week, culminated in a massive sweep across New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and Oregon. Federal agents with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration seized staggering amounts of contraband: over 4 million fentanyl pills, $4.4 million in cash, 79 pounds of meth, along with heroin, cocaine, and more than 41 firearms, according to records from the U.S. District Court in Albuquerque. At the helm of...
  • MASSIVE BOMBSHELL: RFK Jr. Says Biden Admin COLLABORATED In Child Trafficking (For S*x and Sl*very!)

    04/30/2025 6:59:04 PM PDT · by airdalechief · 32 replies
    wltreport.com ^ | 4/30/2025 | by Noah
    HOLY SHIT! RFK Jr. just said point blank that (1) the Dept. of HHS under the Biden Regime collaborated in child trafficking, both for sex and for slavery, and (2) there are 300,000 missing children that they are desperately trying to find. ARFK Jr. says HHS was a “collaborator in child trafficking”, and that he has ended this and now they are aggressively trying to find these “300,000 children that were lost by the Biden administration”. You thought Russiagate and Covid were bad? absolutely stunning and truly crimes against humanity!
  • RFK Jnr. just blew the lid on government child trafficking rings within HHS under Biden

    04/30/2025 2:08:24 PM PDT · by RandFan · 26 replies
    X ^ | Aprii 30 | @Patri0tContr0l
    @Patri0tContr0l WTF did RFK Jr just say? “During the Biden Administration, HHS became a collaborator in child trafficking and for sex and for slavery. And we have ended that, and we are very aggressively going out and trying to find these children. 300,000 children that were lost by the Biden Administration.” It’s worse than anyone can imagine.
  • Navy finally finds something the LCS is good at: Stopping drug smuggling

    04/28/2025 4:23:53 PM PDT · by george76 · 21 replies
    Task & Purpose Today ^ | Apr 24, 2025 | Jeff Schogol
    USS Minneapolis-Saint Paul recently seized more than $12 million in drugs in the Caribbean Sea, an example of how Littoral Combat Ships have found their niche with counternarcotics missions. The oft-maligned Littoral Combat Ship, or LCS, may have found its true calling: chasing down smugglers. USS Minneapolis-Saint Paul, a Freedom-variant LCS, recently stopped two suspected drug smuggling operations within 72 hours “through a combination of air and surface operations” while deployed to the Caribbean, according to the Navy. A Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment that is embarked aboard the ship and Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron 50, Detachment Three helped the...
  • Over 100 illegal immigrants arrested in Colorado Springs massive underground nightclub raid

    04/27/2025 4:14:45 PM PDT · by Navy Patriot · 11 replies
    Fox News ^ | April 27, 2025 | Danielle Wallace , Bonny Chu
    Federal authorities announced Sunday that more than a hundred illegal immigrants were detained in a massive raid at an underground nightclub in Colorado Springs that officials say was "frequented by TdA and MS-13 terrorists." The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Rocky Mountain Division led a multi-agency operation early Sunday morning and arrested 114 illegal immigrants at the venue that contained more than 200 people inside. Authorities uncovered drugs, including pink cocaine, as well as evidence of prostitution and multiple firearms during the operation, according to the DEA. "@DHSgov has taken more than 100 illegal aliens into custody," DEA Rocky Mountain said...
  • Twice-Deported Man Accused Of Smuggling 18,000 Rounds Of Ammo Skips Court

    04/25/2025 7:18:58 PM PDT · by CFW · 37 replies
    CowboyStateDaily ^ | 4/25/25 | Leo Wolfson
    CHEYENNE — Already facing serious federal charges for allegedly carrying 18,000 rounds of ammunition through Wyoming, Ricardo Paez-Quinones, 35, dug himself into an even deeper hole on Friday. Paez-Quinones was a no-show for his bond hearing on Friday morning in U.S. District Court, leading Judge Alan Johnson to put out a bench warrant for his arrest. Johnson suspected that the topic of his bond was what led Paez-Quinones to avoid coming to court, leading him to engage “in some form of self-help.” “We can receive an explanation for that at a later time,” Johnson remarked. Paez-Quinones is an illegal immigrant...