FAYETTE CO. NARCOTICS UNIT SEIZES 15 KILOS OF COCAINE IN TRAFFIC STOP
(Fayette Co. Jail)
Fayette County authorities confiscated around 15 kilos of cocaine during a traffic stop Monday morning.
At around 10:55 a.m., Sergeant Randy Thumann and K-9 Kolt stopped a Ford F-150 on Interstate 10, at the 662 mile-marker, for a traffic violation.
(Fayette Co. Jail)
After speaking to the driver and passenger, Sgt. Thumann became suspicious that the vehicle was being used to transport illegal narcotics.
Upon being given consent to search the vehicle, Sgt. Thumann discovered approximately 15 kilos of cocaine behind the rear seat, in the rear floor and under the center console. The cocaine had estimated street value of $1.5 million.
Authorities arrested the driver, 25-year-old Leonardo Escobedo, and passenger, 39-year-old Margarita Yesenia Montes, both from Eagle Pass. They were charged with felony cocaine possession and taken to the Dan R. Beck Justice Center.
Based on some of these fruitcake comments you’d think that if narco terrorism is only partially stopped by a barrier then it is just waste or that somehow a country should take care of people that would destroy it before people that would care for it. No world exists where we can have common groiund w these vile people. Do not give your pearls to pigs and dogs to paraphrase Mathew 7:6.
This is the backwards, judgmental thinking that we have become accustomed to and it is down right disgusting. Drugs have been in the US for centuries upon centuries. And who you see in the mirror reflects who is using and/or distributing the drugs – people who look like you. Don’t categorize drug use or drug trafficking to only those who are not US citizens. Building a wall will not take away the drug problem, etc that is – obviously – already here.
Kay,
I agree with you 100%. Having a wall will not stop the drug issue here in our country. Drugs enter our country from many sources. Myself I do not feel it is via folks on foot crossing into the United States. That said, yes I believe anyone wanting to come to our country needs to do so via proper channels. A wall is not going to solve anything. We would not even be having this discussion if not for the demand due to folks creating the problem with their drug use/addiction here in the states. The TV program Nightline had an informative report last night on the so called wall. Even the Mayor of the Texas town McAllen does not want a wall in his city and knows it will NOT stop the drug problem here in the states.
Amen! To think “a wall” would stop drugs from entering the country is just ridiculous! Kay your comment is spot on. Kudos!
the drugs are carried on foot I have a friend whose son is a border patrol agent and you would be surprised by the things that they have seen the cartel do to get drugs across the border the illegals are used like mules to carry the drugs across at unfenced areas
The bulk of drugs are not coming by foot. Anyone one who endures making it on foot to a ‘wall’ will not be stopped by a wall, they will climb it just as they are doing along the miles of wall that currently exists. Lot more drugs are entering this country by vehicle than on foot. There is a lot of reliable research out there that supports these facts. Even a Dole Banana shipment to the port in Freeport, TX this past year was discovered to have boxes full of drugs, not bananas. Drugs are entering the country from several avenues.
Build the wall
No wall will stop this type of drug movement. Drugs are transported via vehicles. Money should be invested in better search methods of vehicles crossing the border. Folks are not carrying the drugs in on foot!
Build the wall? Across I-10? That’s a great idea! Would certainly give Sgt. Thumann a brake!
You didn’t quite read my comment correct. Talking about better control at the current border where cars enter in/out of Mexico. Yes Lobos is doing a great job catching the drugs in transport, he is way more effective than a wall would be controlling drugs transported in cars/trucks! I did not say anything about a wall across I-10 which would make about as much sense as folks wanting a wall across/in mountains and water. Point was totally missed!
Presumably my sarcasm wasn’t ‘pointed’ enough…
HELL YEA BUILD THE WALL!!!!!!!!!
YES! A wall will NOT be perfect. BUT It will help, Drugs & other criminal activity are only a part of the problem. Look at the cost to our education systems. hospital districts, criminal justice system, Then throw in all the added traffic, etc. When we moved to CFISD, the district was mostly white with much smaller percentage of blacks, There were some Hispanics & Orientals who were just as American as everyone else. Then Reagan gave away our country, making millions of illegals, citizens. Now 33 years after we moved into CFISD Hispanics make up the vast majority of students. Someone has to pay for all the schools, staff, additional free meals, transportation., There are now dead citizens of Harris County, Hispanic and others, whose killers have gone to Mexico. Mexico will not extradite them unless we wave the right to seek the death penalty.
Your argument appears to say that you shouldn’t have to pay taxes to support kids whose parents are presumed to pay no taxes. First, it’s kind of a big leap to assume that their families don’t pay taxes; I’d research that type of assertion before making it in public, if I were you. Second, I’m a childless veteran, native-born Texan, and U.S. citizen property owner — why should the taxes I pay go toward supporting anybody else’s kids, regardless of whether their parents pay taxes?