Homeland Security Investigations

$450,000 Worth Cocaine Seized From Wheelchair Wheels

A recent news article published in the CNN states that $450,000 worth of cocaine seized from wheelchair wheels at JFK airport, customs officials say.

Traveler arrested in JFK airport

A traveler at New York City’s John F. Kennedy International Airport was arrested after $450,000 worth of cocaine was discovered hidden in the wheels of her wheelchair.

The traveler arrived in New York City from the Dominican Republic on November 10, according to a news release from US Customs and Border Protection. Off...

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2 truckers from Canadian carrier charged in US drug trafficking cases

Bricks of cocaine are stacked as a person uses a cotton swab to test the drugs.

Two truckers who worked for the same Canadian carrier face federal drug charges in the U.S. after they were arrested five months apart in connection with seizures in Michigan of cocaine and methamphetamine worth millions of dollars, court records show. 

Prabhjot Singh was arrested on March 15 after Michigan State Police officers found 142 kilograms of cocaine during a search at a commercial vehicle inspection area in Jackson County, according to a criminal complaint filed in the U.S. District...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/2-truckers-from-canadian-carrier-charged-in-us-drug-trafficking-cases

Undercover trucker: Hauling half-ton of pot for feds in sting

Multiple commercial trucks move along the Peace Bridge, a common site of marijuana seizures at the U.S. Canada Border.

On Dec. 1, a truck driver pulling a flatbed trailer presented himself to U.S. border officers at the Peace Bridge in Buffalo, New York, one of the busiest commercial crossings with Canada. He had picked up his load of aluminum panels in Toronto and was delivering it some 450 miles away in Somerset, New Jersey. 

At face value, it might have appeared as a typical cross-border run. But something aroused the suspicions of U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers after the driver presented his...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/undercover-trucker-half-ton-pot-marijuana-us-customs-sting-canada

22 Years of Imprisonment For Moving Meth Into U.S Aboard Cargo Ships To A Rex Woman

U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday sentenced Yolanda Herrera (43, Rex, GA) to 22 years in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and heroin, and attempted possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine and heroin, says an article published in Shore News Network.

The Crime

According to court documents, between October 24, 2018, and March 18, 2019, Herrera organized and coordinated the shipment of numerous containers of methamphetamine and heroin aboard the cargo...

https://mfame.guru/22-years-of-imprisonment-for-moving-meth-into-u-s-aboard-cargo-ships-to-a-rex-woman/

Feds arrest 19 unauthorized immigrants at Gulf Coast shipyard

The Department of Homeland Security went into Bollinger Shipyards’ Lockport, La., facility earlier this week and arrested 19 unauthorized immigrants as part of a federal investigation, according a report by The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate/NOLA.com.

Fourteen of those 19 workers were processed and released, while the rest were placed in ICE detention, according to the news outlet. Sources told the Picayune that the investigation is related to immigration violations. It is not known...

https://www.workboat.com/news/government/feds-arrest-19-unauthorized-immigrants-at-gulf-coast-shipyard/