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CBP Officers Seize $1.8 million Worth of Cocaine
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- Written by Border Scope Border Scope
- Published: 02 July 2016 02 July 2016
Del Rio, Texas - U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, at the Del Rio Port of Entry, seized more than 200 pounds of alleged cocaine concealed in a commercial shipment.
Travel Advisory - Be a “Ready Traveler”
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- Written by YNN YNN
- Published: 02 July 2016 02 July 2016
Tucson, Arizona - U.S. Customs and Border Protection is reminding travelers planning trips across the border into the United States during the upcoming holidays to make sure they have proper documents and to anticipate heavy traffic.
Nogales CBP Officers Seize Heroin from Teen Body Carrier
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- Written by Border Scope Border Scope
- Published: 02 July 2016 02 July 2016
Nogales, Arizona - Customs and Border Protection officers arrested a 14-year-old male from Nogales, Arizona, for an alleged attempt to smuggle nearly 2 pounds of heroin, worth an estimated $34,000, through the Port of Nogales on Monday.
DHS Announces Grant Allocations for Fiscal Year 2016 Preparedness Grants
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- Written by YNN YNN
- Published: 02 July 2016 02 July 2016
Washington, DC - As part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) ongoing efforts to support state, local, tribal, and territorial partners, Secretary Jeh Johnson announced final allocations of $275 million for six Fiscal Year (FY) 2016 DHS competitive preparedness grant programs. These allocations, in addition to the more than $1.3 billion in non-competitive grant funding announced by Secretary Johnson in February, total more than $1.6 billion in FY 2016 to assist states, urban areas, tribal and territorial governments, nonprofit agencies, and the private sector with their preparedness efforts.
2 New Mexico residents federally indicted for health care fraud
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- Written by YNN YNN
- Published: 02 July 2016 02 July 2016
Albuquerque, New Mexico - Two New Mexico residents, who were charged with health care fraud, were arrested Tuesday.
Elementary school teacher federally charged with receiving child pornography
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- Written by ICE ICE
- Published: 02 July 2016 02 July 2016
Fort Worth, Texas - A Dallas-area elementary school teacher remains in federal custody Wednesday following his arrest last week on a federal complaint, filed June 24, which charges him with receiving child pornography.
NASA Awards Contract to Increase Water Recovery on Space Station
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- Published: 02 July 2016 02 July 2016
Tucson, Arizona - NASA has selected Paragon Space Development Corporation, a small business headquartered in Tucson, Arizona, to develop a system that will increase the rate of water recovery from the urine of astronauts aboard the International Space Station.