United States Border Patrol agents already suspected a motorist of hauling illegal narcotics from Mexico, but discovered a surprise when they stopped the man after he panicked in a typical, Southern California highway traffic jam near San Clemente: two, non-English speaking Chinese nationals. In response, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security filed criminal charges this […]
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Feds Seek Ownership of Drug Kingpin's Cash Seized in Corona del Mar
FBI agents, CIA operatives and Delta Force soldiers surveil Mexican drug cartel bosses and employ extra-legal methods to secretly aid more pro-American narcotics traffickers win a larger slice of the multi-billion-dollar annual enterprise in the 2015 award-winning flick Sicario. Hollywood is terrific at dramatizing fictional crime thrillers, but here on Orange County’s streets—even in its […]
A Tale of Two 22 lbs. Methamphetamine Busts
Does methamphetamine now come in 22-lbs. bundles? On Wednesday, two Orange County men were among five people arrested in Kern County after authorities seized about 22 pounds of crystal methamphetamine. That's the same amount of the drug Border Patrol dogs sniffed out of a minivan at the San Clemente checkpoint on the 5 freeway on […]
¡Aparato! Singer Says She Was Profiled by Border Patrol
Anaheimer and front woman for the jarocho-rock band ¡Aparato!, Nancy Mendez (a.k.a. Cat) assumes the voice of the undocumented whenever she sings, “I'm not a criminal; I'm not who you say I am” on her pro-immigrant anthem “Kriminal.” In the early-morning hours of Jan. 10, however, she had to repeatedly assure a Border Patrol agent […]