STATE NEWS
Courtesy Julian Dais, (Laredo, Texas)-Garth Brooks will be performing at the AT&T Center in San Antonio two scheduled dates have been released for July 22nd & 23rd tickets go on sale June 3rd at 10 a.m. The event is being sponsored by Ghost Tunes. It is recommended that you purchase your tickets early for this
Courtesy Carmen Rendon, (Laredo, Texas)-The United ISD Police Department hosted the inaugural “K-9” Team Competition on May 17th at United High School’s 9th grade gym. A total of 38 local and out of town law enforcement canine (K-9) teams competing to be “top dog” in the areas of accurate, timed searches for narcotics. Each K-9
Courtesy Larry Sanchez, (Laredo, Texas)-A total of eight people died due to a Charter Bus Rollover a few miles north of Laredo along US 83 N . near the Dimmit / Webb County Line. Seven died at the scene and one at the hospital. Twenty-two more passengers were sent to Doctor’s Hospital, 15 to LMC and 7
Courtesy Mucia Dovalina, LAREDO, Texas – U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers and agriculture specialists at Laredo’s World Trade Bridge worked tirelessly into the night to find significant interceptions in a shipment of wooden pallets and on one recent night seized a load, more than a ton, of alleged marijuana and a wood-boring pest in
Courtesy Yanira Deleon, Demond Dupree Bluntson has been assessed the death penalty for killing two children at a local hotel. The story unfolded on Tuesday, June 19, 2012, the Laredo Police Department Emergency Communications Division received a welfare concern from El Campo Police Department on Brandy Marie Cerny who had been missing with her children.
Courtesy Mucia Dovalina, LAREDO, TEXAS – U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers this past weekend seized alleged cocaine valued at more than $1 million at Laredo Port of Entry in one enforcement action. “Our CBP officers utilized their training and interviewing skills to intercept this significant amount of narcotics,” said (A) Port Director Albert
Courtesy Mucia Dovalina, LAREDO, Texas – U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Laredo Port of Entry is advising non-immigrant travelers whose I-94 tourist permits are set to expire in June, July or August to apply for new travel permits now and avoid the rush of the summer travel season. “As we prepare for the onslaught of
Courtesy Mucia Dovalina, LAREDO, TEXAS – U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers recently seized a significant amount of alleged hard narcotics in four separate enforcement actions at the Laredo Port of Entry that carried a combined estimated value of $7,851,085. “These multiple seizures totaling nearly $8 million in hard narcotics truly exemplify our CBP
Courtesy U.S. Customs and Border Protection, WASHINGTON — U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) released their annual report stating that the total number of products seized containing Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) infringements increased nearly 25 percent in fiscal year 2015. The collaboration netted 28,865
Courtesy Richard Pauza, LAREDO, Texas –U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at Laredo Port of Entry this weekend encountered a traveler with aloe vera juice laced with a not-so-healthy additive, nearly 10 pounds of alleged liquid methamphetamine “Our frontline CBP officers have seen it all, nevertheless it is still amazing and unnerving to see
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