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Major weight tossed in Phoenix,.......that place is becoming downright unfriendly to creepos,

be forewarned,...it's a "Fluid Situation",......and they'll be setting up in a neighborhood near you,........next.


GTC

Link: http://www.azfamily.com/news/local/...2208-methamphetamine-seized.11e0906.html

134 pounds of meth seized in Phoenix; 3 suspects arrested

More Phoenix Local News

04:19 PM Mountain Standard Time on Friday, August 22, 2008

U.S. Department of Justice

The following is a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice -- Drug Enforcement Administration:



U.S. Dept. of Justice



Phoenix -- On August 22, 2008, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), in conjunction with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Contraband Smuggling Unit arrested 3 individuals and seized 134 pounds of "Ice" Methamphetamine and 4 kilograms of cocaine making it one of the state's largest methamphetamine seizures.

The investigation targeted a major Mexican drug trafficking organization that smuggled cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana through Arizona for further distribution throughout the United States. On August 22, DEA and ICE agents executed a takedown on key members of the organization when they were observed moving the drugs from a one stash house to another in Phoenix.

The estimated retail (street) value of the methamphetamine is more than $4.8 million dollars

DEA Special Agent in Charge Elizabeth W. Kempshall said, "Today's operation is a major strike against the Mexican drug cartels that have made Phoenix Metropolitan area a primary hub of drug distribution. We have removed more than 4.8 million dollars of filthy money from these traffickers and have taken hundreds of pounds of dangerous drugs off our streets. These criminal organizations that prey upon the weak and addicted should know that the law enforcement partnerships in Phoenix are solid, strong and will be fighting you everyday to keep our communities and our citizens safe."

Crystal methamphetamine, known as "ice," is a highly addictive form of methamphetamine, a stimulant. On the illicit market it is sold in small, inexpensive dosage units that are smoked or injected. Smoking delivers large quantities of methamphetamine to the lungs, producing effects comparable to intravenous injection; these effects are almost immediate after smoking and very intense. "Ice" abuse also results in hallucinations and paranoia.

SAC Kempshall credited the cooperation of ICE and the Phoenix Police Department

Family Values,....re-visited,

A real good candidate for citizenship,....this one.......

Link: http://www.azfamily.com/news/homepa...hild-molest-illegal-immigr.108c5a4e.html

MCSO: Illegal immigrant admits to molesting 12-y.o.

More Mesa and Phoenix Local News

03:02 PM Mountain Standard Time on Monday, August 25, 2008

MCSO / azfamily.com

The following news release was sent by MCSO:

MESA - The Maricopa County Sheriff�s Office Special Victims Unit arrested and booked into jail 24-year-old Jesus Martinez (DOB 06/15/84) on 1 count of child molestation, a class two felony and on four counts of sexual abuse, class three felonies.



Jesus Martinez, 24, is accused of molesting a 12-year-old girl.

Sheriff�s deputies began investigating the sexual abuse and molestation after the young victim�s mother found the 24-year-old illegal alien and the child kissing after the twelve-year-old left home, without permission to meet with him, at a late hour.

The victim told her mother that Martinez took her next to a tractor and began kissing her on the mouth and neck. The suspect kissed the victim�s breast area, where he left a �hickey�. Martinez then asked the child to leave him �hickeys� for his ex-wife to see.

The victim said she tried to leave several times by telling the suspect she was too young for him.

During the investigation Martinez made admission to the molestation and sexual abuse of the twelve-year-old girl.

�This is the fourth case in the last four months that the Sheriff�s Office has arrested an illegal alien, for rape of a young child and sexual abuse,� says Sheriff Arpaio. I have been accused by politicians and activists of not going after violent crime and last I checked a child being raped and sexually victimized is a violent crime.�

Should have just shot the bastard Sheriff Joe, would have been a hell of a lot cheaper! Shot 'Em, hang A Sign on them as to their Crime, and then Hang 'Em High ono the outskirts of the county. Les

Word I'm getting is that this is some sorta' obscene "Sport" in the view of the enactor / perpetrators.

Ya'll go study your handbook about human rights, now.

.........If you consider 'em "Human" to start oout with.

Bad attitude on the B.

GTC

Sport, sounds like we need to give them a 50 yard head start and start launching Bowling balls at them with mortars, hell line up about 50 Mortars and let 'em run. Les

C'mon,....Mississippi,....youcan do better'n this

Link: http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080825/NEWS01/80825015

Peniel Christian Church on South 14th Avenue in Laurel set up its own staging area today for undocumented workers who are afraid to go home or need a place to stay, or are trying to get information, said the Rev. Roberto Valez, pastor of the church.


He said the church had picked up children from schools in Jones County.

While a reporter and photographer were there, members of the church were preparing meals in the kitchen.

One undocumented worker said his wife, who worked at Howard Industries, called him this morning and said she did not think she would be able to go home and to take care of their �baby.� The couple has a 5-year-old. He said his wife is a painter at the plant.

Just so everyone's all square on this,.......we've had RAIN this year,....

...and flooding in places they did'nt know there's places,....

Lukeville woulda' been this deep without "Fence"

.........."all George Bushes Faul"t rhetoric, no more.

I wish we could keep that sorry azz main street that deep in H20 24-7-365,.......

the town where all the Sonorans collect their U.S. Welfare checks.

No,.....PEALLY ?

Yup,

GTC

Link: http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/hourlyupdate/254381

Hourly Update
Border fence design blasted as causing flooding
By Arthur H. Rotstein
The Associated Press
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 08.25.2008
advertisementTUCSON � Environmentalists say flooding caused by a new border security fence in southwestern Arizona shows the structure is being built too quickly and without regard for the environment.
Critics say the design of the border fence caused debris and water backup during a July 12 storm that led to flooding at the port of entry at Lukeville and Sonoyta, Mexico, and at the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.
"One of the reasons for it was the debris that accumulated on the fence itself," said Lee Baiza, superintendent of the monument, a 517-square-mile lush desert tract overseen by the National Park Service.
Environmental groups have criticized the manner in which the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and contractors for federal agencies have designed and built a range of fencing and vehicle barriers at various points along the Arizona-Mexico border.
In particular, they've denounced Homeland Defense Secretary Michael Chertoff's waiver of environmental laws to hasten construction as the Bush administration pushes to complete 670 miles of fences and other barriers by year's end along the nearly 2,000-mile Mexican border.
The barriers are intended to deter illegal immigrants and drug smugglers.
Critics have said the design of the pedestrian fencing being put in on the Arizona border is flawed. Much of that fencing consists of 10-foot wide and 15-foot tall steel-mesh panels, some featuring a series of wide horizontal grates at the bottom designed to let water and sediment flow through.
"While the Bush administration may claim it's taking environmental impacts of the border wall into consideration, building wire mesh fences across washes prone to debris-laden floods is fundamentally flawed," Robin Silver, a spokesman for the Center for Biological Diversity, said in a statement.
Defenders of Wildlife spokesman Matt Clark said what happened at Organ Pipe validates the warnings voiced to Homeland Security before construction started.
"It doesn't take an expert hydrologist to anticipate the potential for these walls to become like dams," Clark said, "especially in flash flood type of storms, where a lot of water and debris are generated very quickly and can pile up against the fences very rapidly."
He noted that rapidly moving runoff in washes dislodged or eroded large chunks of concrete foundations, and debris stacking up against the fence created barriers that redirected water, creating gullies and causing even more erosion.
Federal officials maintain that while Chertoff has invoked his waiver authority three times in Arizona, he has ordered Customs and Border Protection and Border Patrol officials to adhere to environmental requirements.
"We are still required to follow every environmental rule, regulation and policy," said Robert Gilbert, chief of the Border Patrol's Tucson sector. "He does not waive us doing what we would have to do without the waiver. So it doesn't change anything in the environment."
The Organ Pipe monument's staff produced a report earlier this month on the pedestrian fence's effect on the 330,000-acre monument's drainage systems and infrastructure.
It concluded that the fence failed to meet hydrologic performance standards of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers or standards set by the U.S. Border Patrol's final environmental assessment for the project.
That assessment determined that the 5.2-mile pedestrian fence would have no significant impact on the monument's environmental features.
But the recent monument report said its own staff had raised concerns last year over the fence-building plans, based on knowledge of local flash flooding.
The July 12 storm dumped as much as 2 inches of rain in about 90 minutes in the area, and water running through washes on the monument backed up as debris piled along the base of the fence.
It created pools up to seven feet deep and flows several hundred feet wide that eroded some areas along patrol roads. The waters even scoured some fence and vehicle barrier foundations.
"The monument had suggested that they take into consideration everything that can happen with a weather event," particularly an accumulation of debris, Baiza said. "We had a concern that this was going to happen."
Baiza said the fence designers are being asked to come back and study the drainages again to come up with alternatives.

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That loss was just a part of doing business. The Mex. criminal organizations are cooking meth. in industrial amounts. What was seized doesn't amount to piss in the ocean, as to what's getting through. I am glad they got it off the street though, but it's no major setback to the "tweekers".

Hunter, you are just always such a bright cheerful ray of sunshine .

Would killing "Tweekers" on sight be a "Setback".

I know ya'll "Officers" can't do that,.....job security and all,....

Some folks don't have those constraints.......or particularly want them.

While seeking solutions.

Just askin' like.

GTC

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I just state fact, don't want to blow smoke up your ass.

This was a good lick for PPD, but in the big picture of things this was a morsel, as to the amount of Meth that's smuggled into this country from Mex.

I live in a state and work in an area that probably produced more Meth. at one time, then anywhere in the SE.

It's all but dried up, regarding local cooking. It's easier to buy Mex. Meth. it's just as plentiful and without the hassles of getting the ingredients and the taking a hit for cooking versus possession.

As far a killing tweekers, they kill themselves anyway, after awhile of smoking, snorting, or injecting the stuff.

I was watching a show on Discovery Channel the other night, that brought back memories as to how Meth can destroy a community.

The story was about Marshall Co. AL. a rural mountainous county in N. AL. they had an area of the county they called Meth Mtn.

I am familiar with the area and understand what LE and the community had gone through and is still going through and it's effect upon the community.

Yup, you're right,....we'll just leave things the way they are,.....

wouldn't want to upset any applecarts now,....would we.

"Meth that's smuggled into this country from Mex."



It IS a riot to be advised about smuggling, outta' Mex.,....from Tenn.

WE'RE JUST LAUGHING OUR ASSES OFF, HERE IN COCHISE COUNTY.

....thanks for the heads up on that.

GTC

"I live in a state and work in an area that probably produced more Meth. at one time, then anywhere in the SE.

It's all but dried up, regarding local cooking. It's easier to buy Mex. Meth. it's just as plentiful and without the hassles of getting the ingredients and the taking a hit for cooking versus possession.

As far a killing tweekers, they kill themselves anyway, after awhile of smoking, snorting, or injecting the stuff."

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AN Indeterminate answer, right up the middle of the PC road,


Well that's pretty much what I figured,.....

.........You "Officers" of the "Law" can't really do a damn thing to get a handle on this.

So quit pontificating,...and let the M word an V word folks with some goddam spine deal with it.............

" Hey Man, .....I'm just doin' my job, ....yadda,....blah,...."

No,...by your own admission, you are NOT.

GTC

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The Mex. criminal organizations have as good of a logistic operation as UPS, they distribute Meth all over the US.

That's to be said for any organized criminal activity. I've seen marijuana, seized in this state that was grown and imported from British Columbia, known as "BC bud", it's a high quality, high THC marijuana.

I am not saying that it's right or correct that the smuggling is going on, at this point in time you nor myself, can do a whole lot about it, and that's an undisputed fact.

This smuggling of narcotics isn't about one or two Mexicans, it's about an organized criminal activity, equal to that of the mafia. They're not stupid, nor unorganized, nor lacking in the knowledge of the business.

No kidding,.....

we KNOW that it's complete chaos,......

we KNOW that the people that have been paid (VERY Well) to control and interdict have failed,.....ignominiously and abysmally,......

I'd venture that the way the "System" works,.....and having to "Toe the Line"....AKA kiss bosses AZZ.....is involved.

Don't particularly care, either,....bottom line here Hunter , is that your outfits ( LEOs) have pretty much failed,.....

You've acknowledged that yourself, assuming ( I don't like assumption) that we're both reading and writing in English.

GTC

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The powers to be, those well above the USBP and other LE agencies set the rules as to how the game is to be played. You play by the rules and do what you can or your out of the game.

I don't think the failure is due to the USBP or other LE organizations. The individual agents/LEO's want to do the best job they can. But you can only do so much when your corraled and controlled. It's a reactive environment, not proactive.

" You play by the rules and do what you can or your out of the game."

I'll remember that, if I ever start playing games.

GTC

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Who's the M & V people? As far as LE we just can't up and shoot someone cause their there. You know, this border thing has your BP elevated. Have you ever thought of moving away so you don't have to see it and deal with it, or are you restricted by some manner, to have to stay there.

Nice chorus from another displaced Coonass,....

Kerry Grombacher, N.O.La.

" Well this is not the distant past, the old west of history, these are the waning days of the 20th century,
we still pray for rainfall and we struggle for the brand, we still need some LAWMEN that are ridin' for the brand"

Night, all,

gtc

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That's the way it is, if your an employee of an agency, you do as your required within the policies and procedures that are set forth.

You either learn to deal with it or you seek employment outside of LE. Doesn't matter if you work for a city, county, state or Fed. agency to include the US Mil. There's no place for rogue BS.

The Motor and Vehicular collectors,....certainly nothing else,......what on earth else could you think I spoke of ....."M & V"

In all honesty,.....My BP is looking pretty cool,....and a sensible diet ( Life is Good Post) of food GROWN here, on MY land, suits me.....in short,....no, I don't feel like leaving, and ain't planning that.

Your "Move away so's you don't have to see it" proposal just further solidifies my thesis that you just go in and collect wages,.....and try to survive.

I respect that, and PRAY for all of you daily,... that have to strap on one of those filthy Cop Cars,....and go out and do what you do....

I DON"T have to do that,....and I damn sure don't have to accept this current debacle as "Just the way things are"

I would suggest in all honesty that those who cynically espouse that approach are part of the problem,....and dangerously close to being identified as co-conspirators,.....

This ain't Mexico,....and you damn sure ain't my Doctor, Hunter.

GTC