Busy Month for Texas Anti-Drug Forces

Photo byU.S. Customs & Border Protection (CBP)

Texas-based Federal and State anti-drug-smuggling agents have had a productive couple of days this month along the U.S. Southern border. Let's start with the crews of the aircraft pictured above:

That's a U.S. Customs & Border Protection (CBP) Air and Marine Operations (AMO) P-3 radar plane. Half of the United States' fleet of these CBP planes is based at the National Air Security Operations (NASO) Center on the Corpus Christi Naval Air Station. I've written about the Corpus Christi Center before. It's one of seven CBP/AMO air bases in Texas.

Corpus Christi-based U.S. Customs & Border Protection P-3 Patrol AircraftPhoto byU.S. Customs & Border Protection

This brings us back to the P-3 radar planes which have been busy lately.

Between October 7-10, CBP P-3s helped intercept 4.8 tons of cocaine worth $127 million being smuggled by boat in three separate smuggling runs in the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean.

Meanwhile, Federal Agents were also making a significant drug bust in Texas this week:

151 packages totaling 420.1 pounds of crystal methamphetamine found in a truck at the Eagle Pass Port of Entry.Photo byU.S. Customs & Border Protection (CBP)

CBP officers at the Eagle Pass Port of Entry discovered 151 packages containing more than 420 pounds of crystal methamphetamine hidden within the beams of a flatbed trailer. The narcotics have an estimated street value of $3,863,032.

Texas DPS helicopter crew guided Border Patrol Agents to three camouflaged Mexican Citizens on an alleged smuggling run.Photo byTexas Department of Public Safety

On the state front, the crew of a Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) helicopter directed U.S. Border Patrol Agents to three Mexican Citizens outfitted in camouflage they say were on a smuggling run through mountainous terrain south of Van Horn in the Big Bend Sector.

One of three bundles of narcotics totaling 150 pounds carried by the three men apprehended in the West Texas desert this month.Photo byTexas Department of Public Safety

The DPS says the men were carrying 150 lbs (3 bundles) of "narcotics" (most likely marijuana) when they were apprehended this month.

U.S. Border Patrol Agents in Brownsville also interrupted a marijuana smuggling operation in "mid-trek" this week.Photo byU.S. Border Patrol

And this week, Border Patrol Agents in Brownsville interrupted more smugglers carrying bundles of marijuana. This bust netted 79 pounds of weed.

This car was being used in a marijuana smuggling operation interrupted by Brownsville Border Patrol Agents.Photo byU.S. Border Patrol

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Other stories by Jack Beavers about Texas Border issues include:

• Armed Mexican Cartel Members Cross the Border into Texas
• North Korean & Cuban arrested near Texas Border; Mexican President says negotiate with Cartels
• Texas Governor warns of terror risk in migrant crossings
• Mexican Cartels run Texas Border operations as a business: Here's a look inside

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