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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 30, 2010

Oregon Heroin Traffickers Sentenced to Federal Prison

Two cousins from Medford, Ore., were sentenced to federal prison on Monday for leading a heroin trafficking organization in the Rogue Valley. Heroin-related arrests and overdoses in the Medford community have steadily increased since the organization established itself.

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ProductsSeptember 30, 2010

Handheld Video Borescope

The new Cobra-Scope is a handheld video borescope that weighs only one pound and can snake through accesses as small as .177 inches. This remote visual inspection tool is ideal for drug traffic interdiction, among other uses.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 27, 2010

Mexican Nationals Reportedly Smuggled Meth to Colo. in Car Batteries

Officials today said they dealt a major blow to a methamphetamine trafficking ring suspected of moving up to 50 pounds of the drug into Colorado in common car batteries.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 24, 2010

DEA's 'Take Back' Initiative Collects Prescription Meds

Many Americans are not aware that medicines that languish in home cabinets are highly susceptible to diversion, misuse, and abuse. Rates of prescription drug abuse are increasing at alarming rates, as are the number of accidental poisonings and overdoses due to these drugs, according to the DEA.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 23, 2010

Texas Drug Smugglers Using U.S. Mail

The packages, headed for Houston, Sugar Land, Missouri City and elsewhere, came from as close as the Rio Grande Valley and as far away as Pakistan and Iraq.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 16, 2010

Former California Cops Endorse Marijuana Legalization

The members of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) voiced their support for Proposition 19 at a press conference in West Hollywood on Monday.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 14, 2010

Border Agents Fire Into Mexico, After Attack From Traffickers

The agents were returning fire, after they came under fire from Mexico. Several Border Patrol agents were seizing the marijuana using patrol boats, prior to the brief shootout.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 5, 2010

Drug Couriers Using Disguises and 'Cloner' Vehicles

The traffickers have been caught hauling marijuana along the Texas border in fake versions of a Walmart truck or FedEx van. They've employed sham school buses, dummy dump trucks and bogus ambulances.

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Newsby Staff WriterAugust 31, 2010

Mexican Cartel Leader Will Face Trafficking Charges In Atlanta

The Texas-born Valdez-Villareal, who is known as "the Barbie" because of his blond hair and blue eyes, brought thousands of kilograms of cocaine between 2004 and 2006. His cartel is thought to have brought 100 kilos a week into the Atlanta area using tractor trailer trucks that crossed the border in Laredo.

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Newsby Staff WriterAugust 20, 2010

Drug-Running SUV Crosses Mexico-Arizona Border, After Pursuit

ICE notified local law enforcement agencies and border agents that the white SUV was registered to a Rio Rico address, as the vehicle raced southbound on Interstate 19.

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