Tag: U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)

The U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations alongside the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Game Wardens seized about 1,250 pounds of illegally caught red snapper from Mexican fishermen on March 5.

You can hardly call it a smuggling attempt.

A man is under arrest after Border Patrol agents at the Falfurrias checkpoint found approximately 125 pounds of cocaine valued at nearly $4 million hidden within his vehicle.

President Joe Biden has landed in Brownsville.

A man in Brownsville was arrested Wednesday after Border Patrol agents allegedly discovered several bundles of marijuana that weighed a total of nearly 450 pounds inside his vehicle, according to a criminal complaint.

A 54-year-old man on Wednesday was sentenced to a little more than 21 years in federal prison for attempting to smuggle nearly 91 pounds of liquid methamphetamine into the United States.

A former U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer who took a bribe from an undercover agent to allow a cocaine shipment to pass through the Pharr port of entry got a new prison sentence Tuesday morning.

A 21-year-old man was arrested at the Anzalduas port of entry after U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers found he was attempting to smuggle more than 40 weapons into Mexico, according to a criminal complaint.

Federal authorities arrested a woman Thursday who they say attempted to move thousands of rounds of ammunition into Mexico, ammo they found underneath some groceries in her pickup truck at the Anzalduas International Bridge.

DONNA — Just four days after a new majority took control of the Donna City Council, its members voted to put an indefinite halt to millions of dollars in funding that is crucial to the commercial expansion of the Donna-Rio Bravo International Bridge.