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Posted Jun 28, 2022, 9:57 am
Jaden Edison & Patrick Svitek/Texas Tribune
A tractor-trailer found near Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio contained the bodies of 50 dead people, along with 16 others who have been taken to hospitals, according to local officials in San Antonio and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.... Read more»
Posted Jun 15, 2022, 4:31 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
With all the hallmarks of an early campaign event, former Vice President Mike Pence held a press conference near Montezuma Pass just north from a section of Southern Arizona border wall left unfinished by the Biden administration. ... Read more»
Posted Jun 7, 2022, 8:27 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
A Browning .30-caliber machine gun, along with more than 20,000 rounds of ammunition, was seized at a Nogales border crossing Saturday, officials said.... Read more»
Posted May 20, 2022, 5:37 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
A Las Vegas man who engaged in an armed standoff with U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in Lukeville, Arizona in 2019 was found guilty of impeding and threatening federal officers, and smuggling firearms and ammunition into Mexico. John Milton Lee, 62, planned to drive weapons to Guatemala, but was turned back by Mexican authorities. ... Read more»
Posted May 19, 2022, 12:25 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
ICE has a "dragnet surveillance system," allowing the agency to pull up dossiers on most people in the U.S., according to a report by privacy advocates.... Read more»
Posted Apr 21, 2022, 4:53 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
Three people were killed and five seriously injured when the driver of a SUV crashed into a semi-tractor trailer after refusing to stop for an Arizona Department of Public Safety trooper north of Tucson on Thursday morning, authorities said. ... Read more»
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Posted Apr 1, 2022, 3:10 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
A U.S. citizen was arrested last week after Nogales-area U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers found 13,000 rounds of ammunition meant for assault rifles, along with 16 magazines, stashed in his pickup.
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Posted Mar 12, 2022, 11:10 am
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee is calling for an investigation into what he called "an indiscriminate and bulk surveillance program" that collected data on millions of money transfers managed by federal officials in Phoenix. ... Read more»
Posted Mar 2, 2022, 1:34 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
A Mexican woman was sentenced to 21 months in prison after she pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiring to transport and harbor at least 100 people in the country without authorization, authorities said.
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Posted Feb 8, 2022, 2:56 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
A 24-year-old man pleaded guilty in a Tucson federal court Friday for his role in coordinating smuggling efforts in Nogales, part of a years-long investigation launched by federal officials to clamp down on the movement of people across the Arizona-Mexico border.
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Posted Dec 20, 2021, 1:39 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
Customs and Border Protection can close some gaps in the border wall, and work to clean up now-abandoned construction projects in Southern Arizona using millions in defense funding earmarked to counter drug-smuggling, DHS Secretary Mayorkas said Monday.
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Posted Nov 5, 2021, 4:27 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
Federal officials in Tucson unsealed two indictments against Aureliano Guzmán-Loera — the brother of the notorious drug kingpin known as El Chapo — charging him and other high-ranking members of the Sinaloa Cartel with international drug trafficking.... Read more»
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Posted Oct 29, 2021, 11:11 am
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
Two people were accused of sexually trafficking a 14-year-old girl in Arizona and across three other states, and Homeland Security agents are asking the public's help in identifying other potential victims. ... Read more»
Posted Aug 25, 2021, 4:03 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
A driver for the U.S. consulate in Nogales, Sonora, was sentenced Monday to nearly four years in prison for attempting to smuggle more than a dozen firearms into Mexico last year, including a .50-caliber sniper rifle. ... Read more»
Posted Jun 24, 2021, 3:15 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
A Nogales-area man was sentenced in federal court to 41 months in prison for his role in the construction and use of a drug-smuggling tunnel to move narcotics through a cross-border sewer system. ... Read more»
Posted Mar 9, 2021, 10:10 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
Federal agents returned 277 pre-Columbian artifacts to Mexican officials during a repatriation ceremony Tuesday at the Mexican Consulate in Nogales. The ancient objects included 10 Chinesco-Western pottery figures that were produced as far back as 500 B.C., and 267 small artifacts, including arrowheads as well as small stone carvings that date back between 1,000 and 5,000 years.... Read more»