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Hope the Sheriff gets reelected. He is one of very few elected officials who appreciates that illegal immigration is a problem.

Second day in La-La Land,....Governator and Potato Head vie for top honors in sheer stupidity,....and crass masturbatory behaviors.

This is what's getting PUBLISHED,......

can you even begin to imagine what goes on behind the scenes?

Universal City, "HollyWierd"

BRrrrr

GTC

Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080816/ts_nm/governors_border_dc

U.S., Mexican states may charge to cross border Fri Aug 15, 9:08 PM ET



LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. and Mexican states are considering charging a fee for border crossings to raise money for infrastructure improvements that would reduce congestion at border posts, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said on Friday.

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The news came after governors from the 10 border states met with U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff at the Border Governors Conference in Los Angeles.

"Everyone agrees that we need to expand the pipe ... which means that we can get more people across quicker, more efficiently," Schwarzenegger told reporters at a news conference. "And there is a lack of money right now ... maybe people pay a certain amount to come cross. Let's assume $5. Don't hold me to that but that would then pay the bonds so we can develop infrastructure."

Other options, Schwarzenegger said, include charging to use certain lanes of traffic at the border.

"All of this has to be thought through," he said, referring to such a plan as a "public-private partnership."

Such plans will be critical to making all kinds of infrastructure improvements throughout California in the years to come, Schwarzenegger said, adding that the state would need $500 billion of investment in infrastructure in the next 20 years.

In a joint statement the governors called for a substantial reduction in wait times to cross the border by 2013, and backed a drive by U.S. and Mexican federal agencies for funding to hire more border inspectors.

They also backed measures to curb crime in the borderlands, including human and gun trafficking.

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" They also backed measures to curb crime in the borderlands, including human and gun trafficking."

................this is what I mean by masturbatory wiedness,

ANY effort at "GUN Control" here on the line is going to hurt Mom and Pop, Joe average Guy,........and their kids.

NOONE else.

That meeting out in California's a wasted opportunity for a good old fashioned tar and feather party.

GRrrrrrrrrrrrr

GTC

Real Heartwarming,...and a congrats to the USBP folks on this one

.....check out the photos,.....they're not packed in very tightly there.

Sitting in a Semi sized Tractor or Truck,....one'll see folks stacked in like cordwood,....anyone lives here'll tell you that.

that's why the accidents are all so bloddy and horrendus,....overloaded, crammed,..........sigh


Link: http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20080815-1422-bn15smuggle.html

Another disguised vehicle nabbed by Border Patrol


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By Greg Gross
UNION-TRIBUNE BREAKING NEWS TEAM

2:22 p.m. August 15, 2008

SAN DIEGO � Three days ago, it was a drug-smuggling attempt in the backcountry using a sedan disguised as a utility company car. This time, it was a pickup in San Ysidro, made to look like a construction-company truck in an attempt to smuggle immigrants into the United States from Mexico.


U.S. Customs and Border Protection
This photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection shows people packed into the back of the truck.
Sedan disguised as SDG&E vehicle can't fool Border Patrol


Different vehicle, different cargo, different guise, same result � busted by Border Patrol agents.

The pickup had been made up to look like a truck from the Kiewit Corporation, a construction firm currently working on a large project near the border, a Border Patrol spokesman said.

The masquerade extended to the pickup's driver, who was wearing a yellow hard hat and a reflective orange safety vest, the spokesman said.

Border Patrol agents grew suspicious, however, when they saw the truck park briefly in a secluded spot along the border fence. When a radio check revealed that the pickup belonged not to Kiewit, but to a private resident of San Diego, they decided to stop the vehicle.

Seeing the agents, the truck driver sped off down Dairy Mart Road, but agents stopped the pickup near Interstate 5 with the help of a spike strip, the spokesman said. The driver was arrested.



Advertisement A check of the vehicle found one illegal immigrant in the cab and 10 more in the truck bed, crammed into a false toolbox, the spokesman said.
This comes three days after a woman was caught by Border Patrol agents near Campo trying to smuggle 223 pounds of marijuana across the border in a Ford Taurus made to look like a car from San Diego Gas & Electric.

Quote- Therefore, you still need someone to do the jobs lazy Americans won't do. Not saying anything derogatory here, but many people would rather go on wellfare than take an outside job or start at the bottom.-End Quote

Remove the welfare, solve the problem.

That's right and parents also need to cutoff the welfare to their children.

On another note. "Did the pilgrims arriving to Plymouth need visas?
LOL

There were no domestic laws in effect regarding that issue at the time.

Today, there are laws.

There were laws in place, but they were disregarded. The natives told them that this was their land but those laws were not upheld by the newcomers. Why would you expect new immigrants to respect your new laws.
Ask any American Indian -what he thinks about immigration?

Another poor downtrodden one , on a quest for all that's better here,.....taken off the streets,.......

How Sad,........yeah,,........right

Link: http://www.orland-press-register.com/news/alcala_2382___article.html/stop_county.html

Traffic stop ends in arrest
Thursday, Aug 14 2008, 11:20 pm
By Rob Parsons/Staff Writer
A routine traffic stop ended Tuesday with an illegal immigrant behind bars in Glenn County facing multiple drug and weapons charges.

Brazzi stopped Pedro Alcala, 28, on County Road P, south of Orland for vehicle code violations. Alcala told Brazzi he did not have a driver�s license and was instructed to exit his vehicle.

According to sheriff�s logs, Alcala pulled a loaded stainless steel Colt .25 pistol from his pants waistband and tossed it on the seat before getting out of his car. Alcala was then handcuffed and searched for other weapons.

Sheriff�s Lt. Rich Warren said Alcala did not point the weapon at the deputy.

During the vehicle search, Brazzi recovered another handgun, a .22 caliber revolver, and 15.1 grams of methamphetamine. Warren�s field tests confirmed the substance as meth.

Alcala is being held without bail in Glenn County jail on multiple counts including possession and transportation of a controlled substance for sale and possession of loaded and concealed weapons while driving, and driving without a license.

Alcala appeared in court Wednesday, but it was not clear if he entered a plea. An after business hours phone call to the court clerk�s office was not immediately returned.

Following his time in Glenn County, Warren said Alcala would likely be deported to Mexico.

And who gave permission when the Sioux moved west to new lands, or wave after wave of newcomers came down from the north.
We now have a nation and laws in place to protect it,
What we need is someone in charge who cares enough about the future of our country and less about getting being liked by the Mexicans.

King of Kidnappings,.......

I don't like the sound of that, and cleave to AUTOMATIC death penalty in retribution therefore.

Link: http://m3report.wordpress.com/2008/08/15/mexico-the-king-of-kidnappings/

Mexico - the �king� of kidnappings!
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FORMER BORDER PATROL OFFICERS
Visit our website: http://www.nafbpo.org
Foreign News Report

The National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers (NAFBPO) extracts and condenses the material that follows from Mexican and Central and South American on-line media sources on a daily basis. You are free to disseminate this information, but we request that you credit NAFBPO as being the provider.

Diario de Yucatan (Merida, Yucatan) 8/15/08 (This item also appeared in a large number of other papers all across Mexico today)

- headline: �Mexico, the king of kidnappings�
In a study titled �Kidnapping is an explosive business� the Holland-based Pax Christi organization pointed out that between three and four kidnappings take place daily in Mexico and that Mexico occupies the first place for kidnappings among all countries in the world. The study was presented in Bogota, Colombia; it also advocates a policy on non-payment of ransoms nor concessions to the kidnappers.
The document points out that the strengthening of criminality associated with narcotraffic has influenced kidnappings, whose victims are mainly business leaders and the upper middle class. Data from Mexico�s Dep�t. of Justice reveals the 3 to 4 daily figure, which surpasses Ecuador�s 35 to 45 yearly and Venezuela�s, where there were 297 kidnappings in 2007.
- A 37 year old Panamanian was found dead in a Mexico City hotel. One of the 78 capsules he had in his stomach had �exploded�, according to the Distrito Federal�s AG�s office. The man had been carrying 920 grams (almost one kilo) of cocaine in his body. He also had airline tickets showing he was headed for Holland.
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El Diario (Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua) 8/15/08

Short takes from the section on local state news:
- Victim in Chihuahua had killed two in Juarez
- Four assassinated near Parral
- New narcosign hung up in state�s capital
- One more �executed� in Chihuahua; five others forcibly carried off
- One killed and one house fired at in Nuevo Casas Grandes
And from the local city section: (posted 8/15/08 at 01:45 hrs.)
- An additional seven persons were murdered yesterday between afternoon and nighttime in different sections of Juarez, while three others were hospitalized and apparently two more were forcibly abducted.
- A new auto theft record was set in Juarez: 1,668 vehicles were stolen in July, 126 of them by violent means. The first seven months of the year now tally 9,086.
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Norte (Ciudad Juarez, Chih.) 8/15/08

The Chihuahua State Dep�t. of Justice reported that 143 persons were victims of homicide in Ciudad Juarez in the month of July. The year�s tally has now already reached 800.
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El Imparcial (Hermosillo, Sonora) 8/15/08

(Relevant portions of an op/column by Valdemar Jimenez titled �Pears from the Elm tree� (read: asking for the impossible) follow):
We have years now insisting that principally among the great many ills which afflict Mexico, there is corruption and impunity, rooted for years in the country. Up to now no one among those who must combat (those ills) has had the will and aim to try to eradicate them despite promises and commitments to do so.
In the difficult times we are living in because of the scourge of social insecurity generated by organized crime, mainly due to its kidnapping enterprise, the voices of society point out that it is precisely that overwhelming corruption and impunity which are the main causes of criminality that has proliferated so much in our country and has overtaken officialdom which has been infiltrated by the �narco� and organized crime.
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La Cronica de Hoy (Mexico City) 8/15/08

- When a �federal preventive police� group arrived in the city of Aguascalientes they found that six city police officers had suddenly disappeared and are nowhere to be found. The six are being investigated for �illicit conduct� and the city police chief is taking the opportunity to fire them.
- Mexico�s �PFP� (federal preventive police) is planning a nationwide work stoppage today (Fri.) to protest newly mandated work schedule conditions.
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La Jornada , Excelsior (both Mexico City) 8/15/08

Events reported in different areas of the state of Aguascalientes:
- Today at dawn an armed group took a police �commander� out of her house by force.
- The same as above happened to a judge.
- The chief of police at Tepezala has disappeared and his family has not heard from him since yesterday. His son was also taken out of his own home by force.
- There was a shootout last night at Rincon de Romos; three persons died, a soldier and two �hit men�
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Milenio (Mexico City) 8/15/08

Police are looking for a human body to match the head found on the street in Ecatepec (some 15 mi. NE of Mexico City). The head, with its eyes bound with tape, was left alongside a message on a tag-board.
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El Heraldo (Tegucigalpa, Honduras) 8/15/08

According to a consular assistance report, Mexican police officials kidnap Honduran, Guatemalan and Salvadoran migrants and then ask their relatives in the United States for ransom. State and city police, mainly in Veracruz, carry out those detentions of Central Americans en route to the U.S.; an extortion by telephone then follows for amounts ranging from 5 thousand to 50 thousand Mexican pesos. The detainees are held in houses and are not fed.
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La Prensa Grafica (San Salvador, El Salvador) 8/15/08

Kareh Pirozan, a 28 yr. old Iranian, is being �processed judicially� in El Salvador after he attempted to leave the country on a flight to Canada. He presented an Irish passport.
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Prensa Libre (Guatemala City, Guatemala) 8/15/08

- �Eleven persons died yesterday after having been victims of several bullet impacts in different violent acts in the departments of Guatemala, Jutiapa, Jalapa, Zacapa and Izabal.�
- (Following article transl. in full)
�Guatemalans in Rhode Island will celebrate the first festival in that state.�
The Guatemalans in Rhode Island will be able to enjoy a get together beginning at noon on September 7, when the First Guatemalan Festival of Rhode Island will be celebrated.
Edyn (sic) Fernandez, a member of the organizing committee, said to the daily �El Latino Expreso� �We want it to be a meeting of family get togetherness to which we will try to bring the largest number of Guatemalan families who live in the area.�
The idea of organizing the festival comes about so that the Guatemalan community in the U.S.A. can share and know what its necessities are, its legal status, its employment and living conditions and to see how they can work together to seek a solution to their problems, said Carlos Fernandez, president of the Guatemalan Committee of Rhode Island.
The invitation does not exclude latinos of other nationalities and entrance will be free for all. To get more information, those interested may communicate with Carlos Paiz at (401)451-4856.�
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- end of report

Canuck,

"Did the pilgrims arriving to Plymouth need visas?
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Did the terrorists planning to blow up Toronto?

More "Family Values",.....

Good Lord,.....this is pretty sick

No,.....WAY sick




Link: http://www.insidebayarea.com/news/ci_10215151

Palo Alto police arrest man in 2002 rape of 94-year-old woman
By Sean Webby
Mercury News
Article Last Updated: 08/15/2008 01:14:11 PM PDT


More than six years after they arrested the wrong man for beating and raping a 94-year-old woman, Palo Alto police believe they have now arrested the right one.
Roberto Cruz Recendes, 40, of Mexico is expected to be arraigned this afternoon in a Palo Alto courthouse, the Mercury News has learned.

Recendes, who was extradited from his native country back to Palo Alto, will be charged with sexual penetration against a victim's will by force and causing great bodily harm to an elderly person. Palo Alto police took custody of him in Los Angeles.

The woman will never know her alleged attacker was caught. She has since died.

It was possibly the culmination of one of the most controversial Peninsula criminal cases in recent history.

On May 10, 2002, the elderly woman was beaten and sexually assaulted in the darkness of her assisted-living apartment just off El Camino Real in Palo Alto.

Police, on the strength of what they felt were incriminating admissions and the poor alibi of drunken blackout, arrested Jorge Hernandez - a recent Gunn High School graduate with a baby face and no criminal record.

But on August 9, 2002, on the verge of a preliminary hearing, prosecutors dropped all charges against the 18-year-old saying DNA evidence showed that he didn't do it.

Recendes was convicted of domestic violence in Santa Clara County and sent to state prison in 2004, court documents said. He remains on parole for that crime, according to the


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state Department of Corrections, and has an active arrest warrant.

Good bunch, American Patrol,

.....good questions asked here, too, regarding the Boeing "Virtual Fence" fiasco.

Potato-Head's been real quiet on that abortion



Link: We Get E-Mail
August 16, 2008

E-mail to American Border Patrol.......

Glenn

I sent this to Duncan Hunter today:

The invasion continues

On August 13 an American Border Patrol volunteer was operating a camera on the border in Arizona. The volunteer was in Texas. He spotted suspicious activity on Border Road. This video shows what happened.

8/13/08 http://www.americanpatrol.com/WMV/080815-ABP.wmv
7/29/08 http://americanpatrol.com/WMV/080729-VV-Chase.wmv

Mr. Hunter,

I don't live in California, I'm actually in Texas operating ABP's camera's over the internet. As you can see from the video's above this is a growing problem. I have been using this system since April and what you are seeing is an every night occurrence. The video on 8/13/08 shows only 1 of the four groups that I spotted that evening, within a 45min time span.

Since I have been on this system I have watched drug loads and people coming into this country on a nightly basis. Glenn has put this system together for under $100,000, whereas the Boeing system cost $80 mil and didn't work.

What I would like to know is, is anyone going to be held accountable for the waste of tax payers dollars on a system that has been scraped?

Bob Parker

Duncan Hunter�s Home Page

http://www.house.gov/hunter/

This is just flat wierd,.......

Pork Burritos,.....

Link: http://www.landlinemag.com/Special_Reports/2008/Aug08/081508_LA_LongBeach.htm


SPECIAL REPORT: L.A., Long Beach OK grants for Mexican carriers Friday, Aug. 15, 2008 � The Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach boast of bringing in 40 percent of the nation�s imported goods, and plans to cut emissions at each port have been highlighted in mainstream news programs and the cable TV show �America�s Port.�

A Land Line investigation into the ports� multibillion-dollar clean truck program, however, shows that the $2.2 billion program could pay for the replacement of trucks owned by Mexican trucking companies while it excludes U.S. trucks that run any miles outside of California.

The Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles each have adopted clean trucks programs that phase out all pre-2007 emissions level trucks by December 2012, and phase in requirements that all trucks be operated by licensed concessionaires approved by the port. The Port of Los Angeles adopted further restrictions that eventually require all drivers to be company employees.

On page five of the Clean Trucks Program application � which features logos of each port � the form asks applicants to check one of three types of operating authority numbers.

MC for motor carrier
FF for freight forwarder
MX for Mexican companies with federal authority to operate beyond commercial zones


The MX stands for �carriers that are based in Mexico,� said Art Wong, a spokesman for the Port of Long Beach.

Theresa Adams-Lopez, a spokeswoman for the Port of Los Angeles, also confirmed the Mexican truck classification in a statement but said it was �merely an inquiry during the application process.�

�An MX-registered truck probably won�t be automatically excluded from getting grant funding,� Adams-Lopez said. �However, it will need to meet all the standard criteria. Be assured that no truck will be funded under either port�s funds unless it can be shown to meet all program requirements, as a legitimate frequent tripper and contributor to the ports� air quality programs.�

The potential for hundreds of millions of dollars to be given to companies domiciled in Mexico concerns the Missouri-based Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, said Rick Craig, OOIDA�s director of regulatory affairs.

�It appears that certain Mexican trucking companies could meet the requirements of this program,� Craig said.

The truck replacement funding form requires applicants to be plated in California with no International Registration Plan license, and applicants must promise not to run any miles outside of the Golden State for at least seven years.

The ports plan to use container fees to finance a portion of the $2.2 billion truck replacement program, which can fund up to 80 percent of the cost of replacing the oldest trucks among the estimated 16,000 drayage trucks that operate daily in the ports.

The program, however, isn�t fully funded by container fees. The state of California is kicking in a large share of money needed for truck replacement.

Proposition 1B � which includes a total of $20 billion for transportation infrastructure and $1 billion specifically for air quality programs � also will fund $98 million worth of truck replacement funds at the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles during the 2007-2008 fiscal year.

Applicants can try to obtain grants for a portion of the cost of a new truck, or to a �subsidized lease or grant using a combination of port and Proposition 1B funds,� according to a joint announcement issued by the ports on Aug. 1.

Many Mexican carriers run trucks in California with license plates from Mexico and California, or with an International Registration Plan license plate, each examples that would prevent their application from being considered for the truck replacement program. Foreign owned and operated carriers also must deal with a variety of customs and immigration regulations.

Theoretically, a Mexican carrier could purchase a truck in the U.S., run only California miles and employ an American driver to meet immigration standards, Craig said.

Craig pointed out the drayage economy in Los Angeles and Long Beach has been profitable for port trucking companies but not for owner-operators, who can�t afford to buy their own new trucks or to maintain existing ones.

�If not for the perverted economic model that has developed in the ports, there would be no need to subsidize port replacement trucks in the first place,� Craig said. �Our people are complying without public funding.�

Joe Rajkovacz, OOIDA�s regulatory affairs specialist, has addressed the Port of Los Angeles Harbor Commission and spoken to several port officials about the Association�s concerns.

Rajkovacz said the American Trucking Association�s recent lawsuit seeking an injunction against the port�s clean truck program doesn�t argue against carriers receiving billions in truck replacement funds.

�The most onerous aspect of the clean truck program has always been the money giveaway,� Rajkovacz said. �Within the ATA lawsuit against the ports they profess to want less polluting trucks serving the ports, but welcome the financial windfall to meet clean truck program goals. That�s not the market capitalism they supposedly champion. That travesty is only compounded by giving money away to foreign-domiciled motor carriers when long haul truckers must comply on their own dime.�

� By Charlie Morasch, staff writer
charlie_moraschlandlinemag.com

A little "Vignette"

......the creep's lucky Dad didn't just waste him.

Link: http://www.guardonline.com/?q=node/47187

Fight erupts after father meets teenage daughter�s illegal pal
Published: Thursday, August 14, 2008
Thinking he was meeting a 15-year-old girl Friday morning, a 26-year-old Batesville man was surprised to find the girl�s father waiting for him.

Santiago Garcia, of Davis Lane Trailer Park, reportedly went to a location on Highway 233 outside Sulphur Rock around 7:30 a.m. for a rendezvous with the girl and ended up in a fight with her father, according to Independence County Deputy Dustin Robbins.

Robbins said he was first dispatched to the area regarding two men fighting at an accident scene.

�After speaking with the subjects for a few minutes, I found that the Hispanic male was at that location to meet with the white male�s 15-year-old daughter, but dad had learned of the situation and met him instead,� Robbins said.

According to Robbins, Garcia, dressed in lounge pants and a tank top shirt, first gave him a name of Diego Luna, the name of a famous Mexican actor, and said he was 23 years old. He also reportedly said he had a driver�s license, but not with him.

Garcia�s driver�s license was reportedly found while he was looking for insurance papers on his car. Robbins said that is when he learned that Garcia had given him an alias. When asked about the phony name, Garcia reportedly said that was the name the girl knew him by.

After placing Garcia under arrest, Robbins said an inventory of Garcia�s car turned up a roll of duct tape, and he had a condom in his wallet.

�I asked Garcia what he intended to do when he met the girl and he advised that they were just going to talk,� Robbins said.

At the county jail, Garcia was cited for criminal impersonation. He reportedly revealed that he was in the U.S. illegally, and an immigration hold was placed on him for federal agents.

The father of the girl was not charged in the incident.

In other reports filed with the Independence County Sheriff�s Office:

� A 17-year-old White County youth is facing escape and fleeing charges in Batesville after he fled from a White County deputy at the juvenile detention center around 8:30 Saturday night.

Police chased the handcuffed youth around the area of the juvenile center and Hidden Valley Trailer Park several times before he was recaptured and booked into the juvenile facility.

No one was injured in the incident.

� Kimberly D. Thomas, 34, of Concord, was arrested on charges of possession of marijuana and a smoking pipe following a traffic stop around 2:45 p.m. Friday.

Police were led to the items in a backpack, after detecting the odor of burned marijuana during the traffic stop.

Thomas has an Aug. 20 date to appear in district court.

� Martenus A. Mosley, 36, 390 Hawkins St., was arrested for possession of a controlled substance after he was stopped for speeding around 8 p.m. Friday.

Mosley reportedly was in possession of a prescription bottle, with no name on the label, that contained several Xanax pills, according to police.

He was given an Aug. 20 court date.

� A domestic disturbance at 18th and Porter streets, where a man was reportedly trying to drive away, dragging a woman by her leg, led to the driver�s arrest Sunday evening.

Edgar Hernandez Cruz, 32, of 7740 Batesville Blvd., was arrested for domestic battering, no proof of liability insurance and fictitious tags following the 8:15 p.m. incident.

� Three people were arrested early Sunday morning after they reportedly fled from police after they were caught spinning their truck tires on a Batesville street.

Arrested were 21-year-old Stephen Powell of Huntington, Texas, 19-year-old Logan Eaves of Rochelle, Texas, and Rodney Gilmer, 18, of Searcy.

Following a traffic stop, Powell and Eaves reportedly ran from police on foot and were captured at the rear of Heritage Propane company on North St. Louis Street.

Powell reportedly resisted arrest before he was taken into custody.

Bad choice for graffiti location,on a U.S. FLAG?

Go Joe, regardless,.....

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM8bQITQ30Q

Way more Maritime activity this year,

....or so it would seem



Link: http://www.sacbee.com/114/story/1161936.html

Boat carrying 16 Mexican nationals intercepted
The Associated Press
Last Updated 11:13 pm PDT Friday, August 15, 2008

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IMPERIAL BEACH, Calif. -- Authorities say 16 Mexican nationals are in custody and face deportation after their small boat was intercepted at sea off Imperial Beach.

Border Patrol agent Mark Endicott says the 20-foot panga boat was discovered with its lights off just before 1 a.m. Friday, about 500 yards off the coast just north of the U.S.-Mexico border.

Endicott says the skiff tried to elude authorities, but it was "obviously overmatched" by vessels from the Customs and Border Protection.

Endicott says the 11 men and five women aboard the boat were taken into custody and face deportation. The boat was confiscated.

Information from: San Diego Union-Tribune http://www.signonsandiego.com

Jeez,.......Big Pot

Link: http://www.sbsun.com/sanbernardino/ci_10219890

Safer to grow here than at home maybe?


Link: http://www.sbsun.com/sanbernardino/ci_10219890


Deputies raid major pot farm nestled in SB Mountains
Stacia Glenn, Staff Writer
Article Launched: 08/15/2008 09:39:17 PM PDT



Photo Gallery:Marijuana Farm
It was a grueling climb down hundreds of feet of shale and rocks before the team reached its destination: ridges and ridges of marijuana spilling over 40 acres.

Chances are it's one of the biggest pot farms ever uncovered in the San Bernardino Mountains, authorities said.

For weeks, the San Bernardino County sheriff's Marijuana Eradication Team surveyed the marijuana operation nestled deep in a canyon off Highway 18 near the Arctic Circle.

They moved in Thursday morning but were still carrying marijuana plants out of the canyon late Friday.

"They're talking about 30,000 plants right now, but they're still counting," said sheriff's spokeswoman Tiffany Swantek. "It's quite significant."

A narcotics captain said the biggest bust he could recall in the mountains was 47,000 marijuana plants.

The team spent a half-hour hiking into the canyon about 9 a.m. Thursday until reaching the pot farmers' camp.

"They saw several subjects run from them, and they were able to catch five," said sheriff's Sgt. Dave Phelps.

The team arrested five men identified as being from Mexico: Huver Saustegui Salazar, 22; Raul Gomez Salazar, 20; Raul Cervantes Salazar, 19; Sergio Martinez Alvares, 24; and Alonso Sarmiento Gonzalez, 33.

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at West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga.
U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency officials were assessing the farm on Friday to determine whether federal drug charges could be filed.

None of the men were armed when taken into custody, and no weapons have been found at the camp, authorities said.

At least four other pot farmers were able to escape, authorities said.

On Friday, the camouflage- suited MET officers diligently cut marijuana plants in the canyon and loaded them into waiting helicopters.

Curious drivers slowed down to watch as two helicopters hovered beside Highway 18, dumping large bundles of marijuana into black trailers.

Members of the team jumped up and down on the plants, trying to flatten them as much as possible. Within hours, two large trucks were full and waiting cart the plants away.

"This is going to be huge," Swantek said.

Crap,....what's this all about,....?



LINK: http://www.americanpatrol.com/

Free Pass?
Unimpeded by Border Patrol?

American Border Patrol -- August 17
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American Border Patrol's Operation Virtual Vigilance remotely operated camera system has aided in the apprehension of hundreds of illegal aliens. Last night was unusual, however. At about 8 pm (PDT) a group of about 25 people were spotted crossing the border. The Border Patrol was notified. The ABP volunteer (a retired Coast Guard Captain) was told the BP cameras couldn't spot the people so he described their position and tracked them for over twenty minutes, but the BP acted somewhat disinterested and the volunteer could see no evidence of a response. "This is very strange," the volunteer told Glenn Spencer of ABP. The group was last seen approaching Arizona Route 92, a favorite pickup point. (Video on Monday