NEW YORK: 25 big Texas busts made by U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s during Summer 2015These are some of the bigger or more interesting cases worked by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents in Texas during the Summer of 2015.
A 19-year-old Houston man was arrested May 29, 2015 at the Gateway International Bridge after Customs officers allegedly found 54.9 pounds of methamphetamine valued at $1,097,890 hidden inside bottles in his car. Two days later, another 24-year-old Houston man was found with 101 additional pounds of meth worth just more than $2 million also hidden inside plastic bottles at the Veterans International Bridge.
These are some of the bigger or more interesting cases worked by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents in Texas during the Summer of 2015.
Neither historic flooding nor brutal heat has slowed the work of U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers across the Texas.
Last weekend alone, Border Patrol agents arrested eight men – four from Mexico, and two each from Honduras and El Salvador – trying to cross into Texas who already had been charged with sexual crimes, including one charged with sexual abuse of a child.
But stopping known criminals from crossing the border under the radar is only a small part of agents’ jobs. So far this summer, agents in Texas have arrested one of the U.S. Army’s “most wanted” former members, seized millions in Texas-bound drugs (some hidden in some very creative ways) and made several rescues of undocumented immigrants who sought a better life in America, but ended up in very dangerous situations.
