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Qué Pasa? Nogales News and Information
Meaning “what’s up?” in Spanish, this page is our official news feed. Here you will find details about local places of interest, images, events and whatever other information may be of interest to those who are considering a visit to Nogales.
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Three Days of Nogales Border Drug Busts Net $578k in Hard Drugs
120 Pounds of Coke, Meth and Heroin Seized February 1, 2017 From Friday through Sunday of last week, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials stopped two U.S. citizens and one Mexican national accused of smuggling illegal hard drugs in their vehicles at the...
Late-December 2016 Nogales Busts Net $4.7 Million in Illegal Drugs
Major Nogales Commercial Port Busts and Vehicular Seizures January 28, 2017 From December 20 to 23, four Nogales international Customs and Border Protection (CBP) border drug interdictions resulted in seizures of 2,433 pounds of drugs valued at $4,689,000. The first...
Mid-December Nogales Drug Busts Total $923k
184 Pounds of Heroin, Coke, Meth and Marijuana January 27, 2017 From Sunday, December 11 to Friday, December 16, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) seized a combined 184 pounds of drugs with a total estimated value of approximately $923,000. On December 11, CBP...
Multi-Million-Dollar Drug Bust in First Full Week of December 2016
Meth and Marijuana Seized at Nogales International Ports January 27, 2017 In a three-day period during the first full week of December 2016, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) intercepted quantities of methamphetamine and marijuana with a combined value of nearly...
Three Early December 2016 Nogales Hard Drug Seizures for $565k
80 Pounds of Meth, Coke and Heroin January 27, 2017 Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers started the month of December 2016 with three drug seizures at the Mariposa and DeConcini Nogales international ports of entry. The drug interdictions netted nearly 80...
A Ton of Drugs in Two November Seizures at Nogales Mariposa Port
Marijuana and Methamphetamine worth $1.86 Million January 27, 2017 After two weeks of no reported border drug seizures at Nogales international ports of entry, two Mexican commercial truck drivers were arrested during the fourth week of November 2016 in separate...
Saturday Nogales Drug Busts Intercept $1.7 Million in Hard Drugs
Major Seizures of Cocaine, Heroin and Meth January 23, 2017 Two middle-aged Mexican nationals were arrested in separate attempts to smuggle hard drugs across the Nogales international border on Saturday, January 21, as Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers and...
Guns and Ammo on the Nogales International Border
2017 starts with three gun-running busts in Nogales, Arizona January 22, 2017 Three arrests in early January indicate that the flow of Illegal weapons and ammunition into Mexico continues into the new year through the Nogales international border. The Arizona Daily...
Friday the 13th Bad Luck for Alleged Nogales Currency Smuggler
Officials Seize Cash at the Nogales International Border January 22, 2016 A Mexican man ran out of luck on Friday, January 13, 2017, when he was stopped at a border checkpoint and found to have a large quantity of money in his vehicle. Customs and Border Protection...
Latest State Department Mexico Travel Warning – December 2016
Nogales Travel Advisories December Warning the Third for 2016 On December 8, 2016, the U.S. Department of State issued its latest Mexico Travel Warning that includes the Sonoran cities of Nogales, Puerto Peñasco, Hermosillo, San Carlos, Ciudad Obregon, Saric,...
