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Drug Smugglers Are Driving Across the Arizona Border in Broad Daylight
The October 2 shooting death of Border Patrol agent Nicholas Ivie brought national media to Arizona’s Cochise County. After a few days, when investigators determined that the killing was a tragic a case of friendly fire, the media packed up and left.
Most of their stories will go unaired and unpublished, and that’s a shame. With the election looming, voters needs to hear the truth at a time when Washington is spinning the nation into believing that the mission of securing the border has been accomplished. Nothing to see here, folks — we’ve got this under control.
Not even close, says rancher John Ladd.
His San Jose Ranch sits right on the Arizona-Mexico line, ten and a half miles of land stretching from the town of Naco west toward the San Pedro River. Border Patrol has three camera towers on his property, an eye-in-the-sky Cyclops, and sensors hidden in the desert shrubs that activate when smugglers pass. A pedestrian fence (pictured below) blocks the entire ten and a half miles.
None of these security measures have worked.
Since the end of February, Ladd has had at least nine drug drive-throughs across his land involving 21 trucks. The smugglers cut the mesh border fence and pull it down, then ramp over the vehicle barrier just inside it. In most cases they tack-weld the fence back up and brush out tracks to disguise the incursion.
Eight of these episodes occurred in broad daylight, and in two of them the smugglers passed within 50 feet of a camera tower.
firsties
October 17th, 2012
all together now :: why am i not surprized?
Metprof
October 17th, 2012
Of course they do.
Bad Brad
October 17th, 2012
How many OTM’s? Those would be the terrorists.
Anonymous
October 17th, 2012
These drug smuggling folks observe the same thing that the politicians in Egypt and ME do. 0bama is a pandering, apologizing whimp. Cultures (Islam) and occupations (drug dealers) that are inherently violent will instinctively run straight over closeted gay america-hating choomed-out whimps like 0bama.
Chuck U Farley
October 17th, 2012
Two words….Bouncing Bettie’s
srdem65
October 17th, 2012
All of us here in Arizona would appreciate it greatly if the rest of America would quit using illegal drugs for entertainment or get serious and make them all legal.
We’re sick and tired of being the highway for everything illegal, from people who suck the life out of our public treasuries to the drug smugglers who get rich while poisoning our fellow citizens.
If you want to use mind-altering drugs, then elect people who will change the laws.
iamthegps
October 17th, 2012
I motion that he just be able to shoot out the tires of the next one that comes through. It’s his land to defend, because the government certainly won’t do it for him.
Nutjob
October 17th, 2012
Probably just wanted to make sure they met the early voting deadlines at the democratic precincts.
Moe Tom
October 17th, 2012
And rightly so, let them drive. It’s a free country man. we don no stinkin laws.
Moe Tom
October 17th, 2012
kneed
Carlos The Jackal
October 18th, 2012
You can watch live camera feed from cameras here, and if you see something, say something!
http://www.blueservo.net/vcw.php
Paul Moore
October 18th, 2012
Well placed I E Ds
Unruly Refugee
October 18th, 2012
The drug cartels are all over the place. Some of them set up marijuana farms in wilderness areas, as I found out while doing a boundary survey with a friend. We had brush-monkeyed our way through a half mile or undergrowth and briars with machetes to locate a forest service monument in the center of a section we were breaking down when my buddy got snagged on something. I hollered at him to quit screwing around and noticed that he was pretty serious about it. Turns out it was a fish hook tied to a small tree. A closer look showed that they were all over the place.
We knew what was going on, and were aware of the other methods (shotguns with trip wires, etc.) that the drug growers use. So we carefully hoofed it out and called the sheriff.
Took us a month to finish the survey after the authorities cleared out the pot plants and booby traps, and our usual fast pace was slowed down a bit in those remote areas after that. We carried “snake” guns too.
Something sure does need to be done about it. We are losing this beautiful country to the criminals who are overrunning it.
I don’t think anything short of putting a bounty on the heads of traffickers and dealers will ever stop the flow of drugs. But that is so un-politically correct it doesn’t stand a chance with the current politicians.
Every man to himself I guess.