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Nearly $1 Million in Drugs Seized in Nogales during the Last Weekend of August
CBP Makes Four Drug Busts in Three Days August 30, 2016 From last Thursday through the following Saturday, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials at the Mariposa and DeConcini Ports of Entry in Nogales seized more than $990,000 worth of cocaine,...
Arizona Woman Arrested in Nogales Drug Smuggling Attempt
CBP Finds $128,000 in Meth Hidden in Vehicle August 22, 2016 On Sunday, August 21, a 24-year-old woman from Rio Rico, Arizona who was crossing the border from Nogales, Mexico to Nogales, Arizona was flagged for secondary inspection at the Mariposa Port of Entry....
Four Mexican Women Arrested in Mid-August Pedestrian Smuggling Attempts
Drug Mules Concealed Product in Bra, Taped to Legs August 20, 2016 From Monday, August 15 to the following Friday, August 19, four Mexican women attempting to walk across the border with drugs concealed on their bodies, and failed. One of the alleged smugglers...
$325k in Hard Drugs Found in Cab of Pickup Truck at Nogales Border
Heroin, Cocaine and Meth Worth $325,000 Hidden in Dodge Pickup Español August 18, 2016 On Friday, August 12, a 62-year-old man from Magdalena de Kino, Sonora driving a Dodge pickup was directed to secondary inspection at the DeConcini Port of Entry in Downtown...
Tucsonans Visit Nogales, Hide Drugs Inside Their Bodies, Get Caught
Drugs Were Swallowed and Stashed in Body Cavities Español August 11, 2016 A group of five visitors from Tucson crossing the border in the same vehicle on July 30 at the DeConcini Port of Entry in Nogales were stopped for inspection, and four of them were...
Nogales Weekend Drug Seizures Total $300k in Marijuana and Methamphetamine
Three Drug Busts Yield 155 Pounds of Illegal Drugs Español August 11, 2016 Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers thwarted three smuggling attempts last weekend, intercepting 65 pounds of marijuana and 90 pounds of methamphetamine with a total value of $300,000....
Two Drug Seizures on August 4 Net More than 102 Pounds of Methamphetamine and Heroin
CBP Intercepts Hard Drugs Valued at More than $380,000 Español August 7, 2016 Two Nogales, Sonora residents tried to smuggle more than 113 pounds of hard drugs across the border at the Port of Nogales in two separate attempts last Thursday. Both failed. In the early...
Million-Dollar Week for Drug Seizures in Nogales, Arizona
CBP Makes Four Drug Busts Totaling $1.2 Million Español August 4, 2016 Last week Customs and Border Protection officials at the Nogales border made four seizures of hard drugs with a total value of $1.2 million. All seizures were made at the DeConcini Port of...
Tourist Advisory – Extreme Flooding in Nogales, Mexico
Torrential Flooding Affects Nogales Border Tourism Area Español August 3, 2016 Floodwaters rush down Avenida Ruiz Cortinez, also known as...
Nogales Regulatory Unit Issues Product Warning for “Semillas de Brasil”
Español Selenium Toxicity at Issue in Nogales According to a July 12 article published in the Sonoran newspaper “El Imparcial,” the Nogales Unit of Health Regulation and Control has issued an alert for consumers to avoid dietary supplements containing “Semillas...
