Bill to give customs asset forfeiture authority heard
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A bill that would give the Customs and Quarantine Agency the authority to seize the proceeds or instruments of criminal activity, including drugs, raw materials and equipment, aircraft and vessels, money, firearms, and land received a public hearing on Tuesday.
Sen. Mary Camacho Torres, sponsor of Bill 87, said it was meant to provide additional resources for the exclusive use of the agency to fund personnel, facilities, equipment and more, in order to more effectively perform their job.
According to Torres, a study by the University of Guam Regional Center for Public Policy published in February 2019 recommended that legislation create a fund for Customs that mirrored those in existence for GPD.
Dominican politician, 58, faces life in jail after he is arrested at Miami Airport for smuggling COCAINE into the US to sell
Miguel Díaz was arrested after he landed Monday night in Miami on a commercial flight from the Dominican Republic
The 58-year-old Díaz, a congressman in the Dominican Republic, is charged with conspiring to distribute and import cocaine to the United States
He has also been accused of conspiracy to possess cocaine with the objective of distributing it
Díaz reportedly part of an international drug smuggling network between 2014 to 2017
The drug trafficking ring operated out of the Dominican Republic, Colombia and the United States
Drug lord admits in NY court to trafficking tons of cocaine to the US with help from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, the Andean nation s largest rebel group
Colombian drug trafficker Román Narváez pleaded guilty Wednesday to trafficking five tons of cocaine to the United States
He ran his network out of the southwestern Colombia department of Cauca and set up laboratories in jungles
Cocaine was shipped to ports on Colombia s Pacific coast with the help of paramilitary groups, including the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
Narváez could 20 years to life in prison and agreed to pay back $20 million
Keep your enemies close: Drug trafficking tunnel is discovered under construction at home across the street from Mexican military police station
Mexico s National Guard found a 13-foot deep tunnel under a home in the border town of Tijuana while searching for a kidnapped person last Friday
The house is across the street from a National Guard station, and just a few hundred feet up the road from the Otay Mesa Land Port of Entry with the US
An unknown drug cartel planned to connect the tunnel to a second underground passageway that has been built and discovered by authorities 10 years ago
This is what Joe Biden is inviting in through our borders
Mexican drug cartels take in between $19 billion and $29 billion annually from drug sales in the US.
According to a July 2020 Congressional Research Service (CRS) report, about 125,000-150,000 homicides were organized crime-related from 2006 to 2018.
CNN listed the fast drug facts (see below) of the drug cartels. These are the criminals that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are inviting into the country. For example, the CJNG cartel is the cannibal cartel and thousands of them live in the U.S. Part of their initiation is to eat their victims.
This is what the Biden administration is bringing into the country.